Cemore’s Monika Buscher is giving a keynote at the Living Infrastructures, Volgograd, 27-28 April 2017.
Abstract:聽Since the 1992 Earth Summit, 4.4 billion people or 64% of the world鈥檚 population have been affected by disasters, and the number of 鈥榣oss events鈥 has more than doubled (UNISDR 2012, Munich RE 2015). Resilience concepts respond to global challenges, but the meanings, policies, and practices of resilience are ambiguous, on the one hand enacting a neoliberal individualisation of responsibility, on the other new forms of cosmopolitan relational ethics with ambitions for 鈥榬espectful reciprocity, self-governance, improvisation and mutual aid鈥 (Shani 2016, Crawford et al 2013:6, Meier 2015). In this talk I mobilise utopia as method for a speculative sociology of 鈥榠nfrastructuring鈥 for radically reflexive resilience, following Levitas (2013), to critically unearth dynamics of inequality, and to reflect on what it means to be resiliently human.
