Beschreibung:
The idea of "resilience" has been a popular and optimistic policy response to the Great Recession. Resilience has been promoted widely in environmental and economic policy but less so in aesthetic studies. This book collects varying experiences of art in relation to environmental and economic crises.
1. Responding to and resisting resilience 2. Turin and Lingotto: resilience, forgetting and the reinvention of place 3. The Calatrava model: reflections on resilience and urban plasticity 4. Resilience in ruins: the idea of the 'arrested dialectic' in art after resilience's failures 5. Adaptation, adaptability and resilience: the recovery of Kobe after the Great Hanshin Earthquake of 1995 6. Resilience and the role of arts and culture-based activities in mature industrial districts 7. Blue notes: Slovenian jazz festivals and their contribution to the economic resilience of the host cities 8. Beyond resilience: learning from the cultural economy 9. Tourism and regional economic resilience from a policy perspective: lessons from smart specialization strategies in Europe