Resilience

The concept of resilience refers to an individual’s or commu-nity’s ability to overcome a crisis or shock, adapt, and recover despite difficulties. However, amid all the talk about “show-ing resilience,” especially in political rhetoric, some have come to view it primarily as a means of justifying and main-taining a neoliberal model of social organization. Another, more nuanced approach views resilience as a fabricatedpro-cess shaped by power dynamics and relationships between different actors.