Other Side of Resilience to Terrorism

Barbara Lucini, PhD, is adjunct professor of Risk Management and Crisis Communication at Catholic University of Sacred Heart in Milan, Italy. As part of the Department of Sociology, she teaches courses in public policies. She also is a teaching assistant in sociology and risk communication, crisis management, and theory and techniques of mass communications, and a lecturer on crisis, disaster, and resilience topics at universities, secondary schools, regional schools of civil protection (Lombardia region), and civil protection voluntary associations.Dr. Lucini also is project manager and researcher with Itstime Disaster Resilience Action (IDRA). She collaborates in training activities with diverse regional and national agencies, and is involved in various national and international networks. Her research interests are focused on disaster resilience, sociology of disaster, crisis and disaster management (national, international, and European levels), civil protection systems, civil defense systems, volunteers’ management, risk perception, and crisis communication. She also is interested in environmental and urban sociology, visual studies, disaster anthropology, and methodology of social research.

• The Other Side of Resilience.- The theoretical relationships among security, resilience, migration, and terrorism.- A portrait of a resilient–healthy city: urban resilience, migration, and terrorism threats.- The theoretical and methodological implications of terrorism and urban resilience.- Milan city: a journey through the traces and signs of the other side of resilience.- The portrait: Centro storico.- The portrait: Stazione centrale, Gorla, Turro, Greco, Crescenzago.- The portrait: Città Studi, Lambrate, Venezia.- The portrait: Vittoria, Forlanini.- The portrait: Vigentino, Chiaravalle, Gratosoglio.- The portrait: Barona, Lorenteggio.- The portrait: Baggio, De Angeli, San Siro.- The portrait: Fiera, Gallaratese, Quarto Oggiaro.- The portrait: Stazione Garibaldi, Niguarda.- A theoretical and methodological proposal for the future of counterterrorism and urban resilience.