Acting local, thinking global: Globalizing resilience through 100 resilient cities
Chris Zebrowski
2134/11323352.v1
https://repository.lboro.ac.uk/articles/journal_contribution/Acting_local_thinking_global_Globalizing_resilience_through_100_resilient_cities/11323352
This article investigates the globalization of resilience by examining a particular and
prominent vehicle for the dissemination of resilience-ideas: the Rockefeller Foundation’s 100
Resilient Cities (100RC) initiative. As a philanthropic initiative organized through a network of
international cities, 100RC demonstrates how the spread of resilience-thinking has been
facilitated by exploiting changes in the structures and processes of global governance
afforded by neoliberal globalization. The analysis focuses on explicating 100RC’s animating
logic of governance, which is committed to the cultivation of network connectivity. Rather
than directly fostering resilience, connectivity is established as a condition under which
resilience solutions can be immanently surfaced from the interactions of a diverse selection
of stakeholders brought together through these networks. The article situates this
governmental logic within broader changes associated with neoliberal globalization, namely:
the emergence of multi-scalar governance networks, the rise of philanthrocapitalism and the
inception of platform capitalism. The conclusion discusses the implications of this analysis for
further study of the relation between connectivity, danger, knowledge and value contained
within resilience discourses.
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Urban Resilience
Neoliberalism
Globalization
100RC
Connectivity