Resilience, class, and the antifragility of capital

作者: Connor Joseph Cavanagh , None

DOI: 10.1080/21693293.2016.1241474

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摘要: AbstractCritical scholarship on the concept of resilience has so far eluded synthesis with that antifragility, or ways in which diverse entities, organisms and complex systems may benefit from disorder. Yet this distinction is crucial for understanding both overarching political ecological stakes our contemporary historical-geographical moment: ostensibly nascent Anthropocene. Indeed, whilst ecologists be perfectly correct to empirically describe ecosystems as exhibiting resilience, attempts extend signifier intertwined political-economic phenomena elide a politics articulation frequent contradiction between resilient ecologies antifragile patterns capital accumulation. Examining latter, particular, I reflect class what we might call moments capital’s ‘opening’, complement well-known ‘stretching’ ‘deepening’ marketisation commodification. In short, such mome...