Decolonising resilience proffers a non-homogenising ground to re-conceptualise and rethink (neo)colonial subjectivities and power imbalances in resilience policies.
Placing opacity at the centre may enable the problematisation of external projects of intervention, no matter how ‘enabling’ they set out to be.
Instead of relying on individual grit, determination, and immune systems to survive our perilous present, we need to value and practice interdependence.
Whatever states may gain from adopting a strategy of resilience, their societies will lose in terms of security as resilience is not a synonym for security.
The sense of ‘security’ fostered by the ubiquity of claims to resilience has been shattered by COVID-19. We were never resilient.
The re-building following the pandemic will require not only resilience and a continued fight for what we hold dear, but also to recognise the limits of rationalist universalism.
Coronavirus shows the limits of resilience. If we are the security threat as well as the subjects to be secured, then we cannot be trusted to secure ourselves.
Alice Hill discusses her work on resilience and climate change, how to encourage policy-makers to incorporate resilience and what more could be done by elected officials.
‘Breaking Bad’ potentially disrupts how we conceptualize resilience by opening up thinking space to consider who has the right (or opportunity) to be resilient.
Dr. Steven C. Roach discusses his research on theorizing emotional actions and the value of resilience in International Relations Theory.
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