Community resilience is a central concept within crisis management policymaking, but it has escaped critical analysis. This article responds to this problem by examining a community-led response to a large natural disaster (the Queensland floods of 2010-11). The findings emerge from the application of a novel ethnographic method, uniquely informed by an insider's view of the disaster, which generated narratives from 'the ground'. These narratives highlight a darker side to community resilience, which is largely unacknowledged, but needs to be understood so that we can critically appraise the concept more effectively in the future.
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George, N., & Stark, A. (2016). Community resilience and crisis management: Policy lessons from the ground. Policy and Politics, 44(4), 591–607. https://doi.org/10.1332/030557315X14351420409945
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