The Resilience Myth
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The Resilience Myth
Joy Howard and added
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
Anne Helen Petersen • Friday Thread: Theories of Resilience
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
... See moreSiri Hustvedt • Mothers, Fathers, and Others: Essays
As Diane Coutu so eloquently explains in her luminous “How Resilience Works,” “Resilient people possess three characteristics — a staunch acceptance of reality; a deep belief, often buttressed by strongly held values, that life is meaningful; and an uncanny ability to improvise. You can bounce back from hardship with just one or two of these qualit
... See moreAndrea Ovans • What Resilience Means, and Why It Matters
Abhilash Rao added
confront a kind of resilience that isn’t really about returning back to the way you were before, but is much more about reclaiming whatever new shape your form has taken. A resilience that doesn’t really ask us to forget, but that carries the memory of whatever harm or whatever fire we’ve been through. A resilience that carries that memory and stil... See more
Resilience Requires Flexibility
john silkey added
Resilience = emergence of something new, not a maintaining of the same
vulnerability and resilience.
Elif Shafak • The Island of Missing Trees: A Novel
The only sensible path forward is to learn to accept the brokenness of human life, to develop resilience in the face of its petty cruelties, and to learn to live with yourself.
Andrew Tam added
From the "Can You Imagine?" zine