Community resilience: a useful concept for declining Icelandic communities?

In recent years, resilience has become an increasing focal point of community studies, in particular for settlements the peripheral north, which face severe socio-economic and demographic challenges. Not all researchers practitioners were equally excited about transfer this concept – deeply rooted ecology to social sciences. Unsurprisingly there is a growing literature that engages critically with resilience. This reflection takes up some main criticism projects it onto Iceland; country can serve as magnifier exploration variety reasons. The aim keep discussion going theoretical analytical insufficiencies within field Shortcomings existing definitions, role politics agency well determination equilibria question endpoint are essential strands argumentation.