An ethic of care for resilience: addressing resilience’s problem of the present in the ‘Transition Towns’ model

This study examines the organizing model ‘Transition Towns’ and its broader social movement,

one that is explicitly oriented toward building resilience. Grounded in two years of eth-

nographic fieldwork among Vermont and New England community organizers, this chapter

sets the concept of resilience in a particular historical and social context. I demonstrate how

‘resilience building’ as practice in the contemporary United States is made complex by the

contextual particularities of ‘resilience’ as concept.