ABSTRACT
This chapter details the book’s conceptual framework, centred on connectivity. The framework is used in the research to develop a novel approach to resilience – one that explores the fluid and storied connectivities between individuals and their social ecologies. The chapter discusses the rationale for the book’s emphasis on connectivity, as well as its particular use of ecology literature on connectivity. What it specifically borrows from ecology are the concepts of structural and functional connectivity, fragmentation and dynamic connectivity. It adapts them, in turn, to form the three core elements of its own connectivity framework – namely, supportive and sustaining connectivities, broken and ruptured connectivities and new connectivities.
