Episode 283: When Resilience Becomes a Cage

Today’s episode critiques the modern discourse of resilience, arguing that it often functions as a “cage” for multiply marginalised people rather than a virtue. It explains how this concept, particularly within neoliberal frameworks, shifts responsibility for overcoming adversity from systemic issues to individuals, effectively gaslighting those who suffer from structural harm. The author of the source article, Dr. Jaime Hoerricks, highlights how institutions celebrate the “survival” of marginalised individuals as proof of their own efficacy, without addressing the underlying conditions that necessitated such resilience. Instead, she advocates for alternative frameworks, like the Power Threat Meaning Framework (PTMF), which reframe survival as a patterned adaptation to power structures and emphasises the importance of collective and decolonial resilience rooted in narrative sovereignty and kinship.

Here’s the link to the source article: https://open.substack.com/pub/autside/p/when-resilience-becomes-a-cage-the

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