The Resilience Myth

I study resilience as it relates to disaster response, and contemporary scholars are more or less in agreement that the concept of resilience is used as a way to place responsibility that belongs with the government onto individuals and communities that are hit the hardest by various extreme events (almost always low income communities of color). O... See more

She bounced back—not just from a short jail sentence, but from hardships of all kinds, and many illnesses. In psychiatry, resilience is a term with a clinical meaning used to describe a person’s ability to cope with stress and trauma. This capacity involves multiple factors—the chorus of a person’s bodily systems and how they respond to stress; psy

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Instead of a holistic and intersectional approach, entrenched in the ability to tap into collective support structures as a form of personal resilience, healing is depoliticised and rendered a singular and individual trauma chronically dependent on a capitalist and extractivist commercialisation of Indigenous knowledge (Yoga, Ayahuasca, herbal medi... See more