Resilience and the Humanities

Critique and Testing

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

AvStephen M Hart,Camila Gatica Mizala,Nicolas Lema Habash

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Explores the concept of 'resilience' by proposing that it is a contested idea, susceptible to criticism, and not a predetermined notion whose consequences are fixed."Resilience" is all around us. It is a buzzword in domains that range from engineering, through moral psychology, coaching and self-help manuals, to military strategy. The word has varied meaning across these fields, but all definitions share the idea that it accounts for the protection and maintenance of different environments through the adaptation of its individuals to the changes or disruptions these might undergo. The apparently obvious meaning of resilience and its normative consequences are the result of a series of intellectual, social and epistemic processes. Resilience and the Humanities: Critique and Testing proposes that, regardless of its ubiquity, resilience is a concept that cannot be accepted without interrogating and testing its value, thereby contesting and critiquing it.This edited volume explores the possibilities and shortcomings of the concept through philosophy, literature, history and film studies in fifteen chapters that seek to understand the promises and limitations of resilience through different case studies. The authors discuss the way the concept fills a discourse with ideas that have consequences upon subjects and bodies on a social, cultural and political level.An overall view of these different approaches to resilience allows this collection to establish the multivocal nature of the concept when used in different disciplines. Put simply, there is a multiplicity of ways in which the concept of resilience can be applied across the humanities.This book is available as Open Access under the Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-06-16
Mått152 x 229 x undefined mm
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieHumanities in the World
Antal sidor336
FörlagBoydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN9781648251856

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STEPHEN M. HART is Professor of Latin American Film, Literature and Culture at University College London, UK. CAMILA GATICA MIZALA is an Assistant Professor at Universidad de Chile's Department of Historical Sciences. NICOLAS LEMA HABASH is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the Universidad de los Andes, Bogota. CARLOS FONSECA is Assistant Professor and Fellow of Trinity College, University of Cambridge. NICOLAS LEMA HABASH is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the Universidad de los Andes, Bogota. STEPHEN M. HART is Professor of Latin American Film, Literature and Culture at University College London, UK. CAMILA GATICA MIZALA is an Assistant Professor at Universidad de Chile's Department of Historical Sciences.

General introduction: Contested and contesting resilienceStephen M. Hart, Camila Gatica Mizala and Nicolas Lema Habash Part I: Critique (Philosophy, Ecology, Sustainability)1. Towards Destruction: An Essay on How Resilience Affects ResistanceNicolas Lema Habash (University of Los Andes, Bogota)2. Countering Resilience and its Consensual Logic: Persistence, Resistance, Re-existenceLaura Quintana (University of Los Andes, Bogotá)3. 'How each particle, when it bangs into another, either bounces back or passes on a part of its motion': On a famous Spinozist occurrence about the resilience problem, and its inadequacyVincent Legeay (Université Paris-Creteil)4. Resilience and Sustainability as Complementary Concepts in Political ThoughtAnna Wienhues (KU Leuven)5. Resilience, ecosystems, and places: can resilience delineate dynamic entities?Patrik Baard6. Adapt Creatively or Perish: How Resilience Carved the Grave of Strong SustainabilityAndrea Lehner (University of Los Andes, Bogotá) Part II: Application7. Resilience and Race in the Hagiographic Tradition of Saint Martin of PorresCelia Cussen (University of Chile)8. Resilience in Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of SolitudeStephen M. Hart (University College London)9. Discovering Women's Resilience: The Development Film in the 1970sMolly Geidel10. Reimagining home: Exile and resilience in Chilean film, 1970-1990Jennifer Alpert (Stanford University) and Camila Gatica Mizala (University of Chile)11. 'A Time that Has Not Yet Been'. Futurity and Survival in Marta Aponte's Caribbean ArchiveCarlos Fonseca12. Beyond resilience: Débrouillardise in civil war novelsHannah Grayson13. Resilience in the Latin American Anthropocene WesternLeidy Paola Bolaños Florido (University of Los Andes, Bogotá) and Wolfgang Fuhrmann (Leipzig University)14. 'Now Where Am I?': Endurance in Peter Loizos's Sophia and Her People (1985)Ignacio Albornoz (University of Paris) and Katerina Hatzikidi (University of Tübingen)15. When I'm Down I Just Get up―or Do I? Contentiousness of Resilience in the Face of Natural Disasters in JamaicaVictoria Carpenter (University of Bedfordshire) List of ContributorsIndex