Beyond Resilience in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences: Research on Critical Terms examines the stakes of public discourse on how people respond to crisis.
This interdisciplinary volume examines multilingual critical alternatives to the all-pervasive language of ‘resilience’ and ‘crisis’. Drawing together contributions from the arts,humanities and social sciences, this volume starts from the untranslatability of ‘resilience’ across cultures and gathers case studies which help us expand our critical terminology. The volume explores how critical vocabulary for contemporary scholarship on crisis must move beyond five major limitations: the imperative to bounce back quickly, the neglect of collective, land-based knowledge, the insistence on hyper individualism, and the depoliticised reduction of subjects living with crisis to compliance and victimhood. It does so from a range of disciplinary perspectives covering art, literature, critical geography, philosophy, postcolonial studies and psychoanalysis.
Introduction and Chapter 12 of this book are freely available as downloadable Open Access PDFs at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) 4.0 International license.
Beyond Resilience in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences: Research on Critical Terms examines the stakes of public discourse on how people respond to crisis.
This interdisciplinary volume examines multilingual critical alternatives to the all-pervasive language of ‘resilience’ and ‘crisis’.
Introduction: Iterative Research in Times of Crisis
Section
1. Endurance to Open Futures
Chapter
1. Surviv/venance: Problematizing Resilience and Reading Resurgence
in Québécois Indigenous Womens Literature
Chapter
2. Sumud: Futuristic Heritage Practices in the Context of Settler
Colonialism
Chapter
3. The Working-Through Cure: Resilience and the Unconscious
Section
2. Faultlines
Chapter
4. A Pura Pala: Reimagining Resilience as Querencia y Resistencia. A
Case Study from New Mexicos Acequias
Chapter
5. Staying in Place: Slow Resistance and Energo-Politics in Vaca
Muerta, Argentina
Chapter
6. Nothing Spoil as Fragile Resilience in Nigerian Literature
Section
3. Collective Knowing
Chapter
7. Meeting of Minds on Bigidi as a Breath for the World
Chapter
8. Rethinking Resilience: Rafistolage, Re-creation, and Community
in Daniel Maximins L'Île et une nuit and Gisèle Pineaus LEspérance
macadam
Chapter
9. Hazard and Agency: A Challenge to Established Methodology in
Research
Section
4. Beyond Discipline
Chapter
10. On Two Accounts of Calculation
Chapter
11. Urban resilien(ce)ship: Approaching citizenship through the
implementation of resilience discourse in crises-ridden Athens, Greece
Chapter
12. Mekete: Enacting Tigrayan Survival and Resistance amidst War and
Siege
Chapter
13. The Absurd State of Resilience
Hannah Grayson is a senior lecturer in French and Francophone Studies at the University of Stirling, UK. Her research focuses on crisis and its aftermath in French-language African literature and she has worked extensively on the testimonies of people who lived through the Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda.
