Whole society resilience: what’s art got to do with it?

Duggan, Patrick and Andrews, Stuart (2024) Whole society resilience: what’s art got to do with it? Crisis Response Journal.

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Abstract

In recognising and calling for ‘whole of society’ approaches to resilience, the UK Government Resilience Framework (UKGRF) implicitly suggests both that whole society resilience is new and that it is not already being enacted. Simultaneously, while the move to a more holistic, broad- based approach to resilience is important and timely, there are risks in accidentally suggesting that resilience is only borne by communities and individuals looking after themselves. While we, of course, recognise this is not the explicit argument of the UKGRF, we also argue that there is a lot of work to be done in understanding what we, as a society, mean by whole society resilience. This is critical if we are to avoid the pitfalls of suggesting or implying that people need to do more with less. The UKGRF offers a compelling opportunity to consider what whole society resilience might involve and how we might develop and maintain a robust whole society approach to resilience challenges. In this context, there are vital lessons to be learned from sectors of society that already leverage whole community understandings to mitigate and manage resilience challenges.

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