Resilience Governance: A New Form of Colonialism in the Global South
The reason why projects fail may well be that resilience “experts” necessarily start from problematising local capacities and capabilities rather than building upon them.
Neo-Colonial Subjectivities in Resilience Praxis and the Urgency to Think ‘Beyond Inclusion’
Decolonising resilience proffers a non-homogenising ground to re-conceptualise and rethink (neo)colonial subjectivities and power imbalances in resilience policies.
Decolonising Resilience: Rethinking ‘Local Knowledge’, Opacity and Coloniality
Placing opacity at the centre may enable the problematisation of external projects of intervention, no matter how ‘enabling’ they set out to be.
Is Resilience Thinking a Form of Eugenics?
Instead of relying on individual grit, determination, and immune systems to survive our perilous present, we need to value and practice interdependence.
Opinion – ‘Resilient Ukraine’ and the Future of War in Europe
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.
Opinion – COVID-19 Proves That We Never Were Resilient
The sense of ‘security’ fostered by the ubiquity of claims to resilience has been shattered by COVID-19. We were never resilient.
Coronavirus, Resilience and the Limits of Rationalist Universalism
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 and the End of Resilience
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.
Interview – Alice Hill
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.
What Can We Learn About Resilience from ‘Breaking Bad’?
‘Breaking Bad’ potentially disrupts how we conceptualize resilience by opening up thinking space to consider who has the right (or opportunity) to be resilient.
