Randalls, S; Simon, S; (2016) Making resilience strange: Ontological politics in a `time of crisis'. In: The Routledge Handbook of International Resilience. (pp. 38-48). Routledge: London, UK.

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Our analysis is concerned with the multiplicity of resilience. We trace the concept across ecology and security, through to surgery, management and psychology. In doing so we argue that resilience can only be interrogated politically at its moments of articulation where the ontological politics, norms, values and changes in practices envisaged are named and, often, obscured. Rather than either take resilience to be a determinedly new shift in policy-making or simply an empty signifier, our analysis focuses on the different ways resilience arguments are made to enable, justify and legitimate changes in behaviours and practices that often invoke competing and contradictory visions of the good life to be lived and the bad life or death to be avoided. Armed with an array of diverse examples, the chapter makes resilience ‘strange’ in a Foucauldian sense and interrogates the ontological politics of resiliences, exposing common points of tension that highlight embedded political commitments.

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