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The Imaginary of Resilience: Trauma, Struggle, Life

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As a culture we are saturated today by discourses around the need to develop the self. In fact discourses around selfhood can be seen to be driving wider social and political discourses around development on a more or less global scale. The discourse on ‘the resilient self’ is a case in point.

An earlier version of this article was published in: Bohland, J., Davoudi, S. and Lawrence, J. L. (eds.), “The Resilience Machine” (2018), pp. 29–42, New York: Routledge.​

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Notes

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    Consider also, in the current security climate, here in 2016, also the hysteria surrounding the threats posed by images created by Islamic State (ISIS) and disseminated on social media. A wide range of western security analysts have demanded more attention and greater responses to the functions of these images in the war against terror (see especially Harmanşah 2015; Giroux 2014).

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    Much of the energy of critical theory in the discipline of International Relations has been devoted to shoring up this central premise of Hobbesian thinking concerning relations between imagination, fear, security and state power. For a now classic account, see Campbell (1992).

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    “Resilience thereby comes to be a fundamental mechanism for policing the political imagination, nothing less than the attempted colonisation of the political imagination by the state” Neocleous (2013).

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    For the analysis of resilience, see especially Evans and Reid (2013); Chandler (2013).

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    For a full account of the film, see the excellent Julian Rice (2012).

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Reid, J. (2019). The Imaginary of Resilience: Trauma, Struggle, Life. In: Rampp, B., Endreß, M., Naumann, M. (eds) Resilience in Social, Cultural and Political Spheres. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-15329-8_10

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