Social Policy and Society

Table of Contents - 2009 - Volume 8, Issue 01  

Themed Section on Resilience and Social Exclusion

Introduction: Resilience and Social Exclusion

Tania Burchardta1 and M. Carmen Huertaa1

a1 Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, London School of Economics E-mail: t.burchardt@lse.ac.uk

Resilience and social exclusion are both slippery concepts. Attempting to explore the relationship between them – the challenge set for contributors to this themed section – might therefore be considered a rash undertaking. Nevertheless, there is much to be learned – theoretically, empirically and in terms of policy implications – from bringing together these two areas of investigation which have developed hitherto largely in isolation from each other.