Resilient resistance

Abstract

in a facet of resilience risks treating plurality as a threat rather than a strength. This highlighted through an examination of how the third sector was characterised as retarding individuals’ resilience and promoting ‘ethno-centrism’ in official resilience discourse. We three distinctive insights on the problem of resilience as a feature of policy, firstly, that resilience has a symbolic power that makes it difficult to securitize; secondly, discourses risk instituting racism within thirdly, that is built against collective forms and therefore the resources and capacities local To we and through