The Resilient Subject

Hill, Lisa; Larner, Wendy

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“…But resilient subjects are not simply new versions of the individualised subjects imagined by neoliberalism; they are not the entrepreneurialised rational subjects that drive both production and consumption, nor are they reducible to the geneticised subjects imagined by neuroscience and behavioural economics (Cretney and Bond, 2014; McRobbie, 2020). Resilient subjects are ‘situated, mutable and dynamic’, called into being by different imaginaries of the present and future and the tactics and strategies deployed to intervene and govern them (Hill and Larner, 2017). Resilient subjects are also imagined as self-sustaining, collectivised, creators of ‘everyday utopias’ (Cooper, 2013) who in doing so create alternative environmental, economic and social futures.…”

Section: Geographies Of Resistance Resilience and Reworkingmentioning

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Feminism and futurity: Geographies of resistance, resilience and reworking

MacLeavy

Fannin

Larner

2021

Progress in Human Geography

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This article is designed to stimulate debate over the possibilities for thinking feminist futures. It argues for moving away from a linear understanding of feminism which assumes that past feminism produces present and future feminism as a response to its previous waves. Instead, we argue for embracing the multiplicity and simultaneity of contemporary feminisms, taking inspiration from Elizabeth Grosz’s writings on futurity and Cindi Katz’s work on resistance, resilience and reworking. Drawing on Katz’s framing, we review three analytically distinct ways of conceptualising feminist politics and consider how feminist geographers are asking new questions of familiar domains, as well as finding gender formations and political possibilities in unexpected empirical sites. In doing so, we point to the contemporary relevance of feminist scholarship and politics, and affirm feminism's ongoing importance.

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Section: Geographies Of Resistance Resilience and Reworkingmentioning

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Feminism and futurity: Geographies of resistance, resilience and reworking

MacLeavy

Fannin

Larner

2021

Progress in Human Geography

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“…The consequences of societal security, resilience and neoliberal security mechanisms, along with the connections between them, need to be further contextualized so that we can apprehend the lack of resistance they induce and the associated social technologies (Krüger, 2018; Hill and Larner, 2017). Vaughan Higgins and Wendy Larner argue in this respect that instead of theorizing a monolithic understanding of neoliberal rule, it is increasingly important ‘to grasp the geographical and temporal unevenness of the processes involved’ (Higgins and Larner, 2017: 2).…”

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The connections between crisis and war preparedness in Sweden

Larsson

2020

Security Dialogue

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Contemporary liberal and democratic states have ‘securitized’ a growing number of issues by advancing the notion of societal security. This is coupled with a proactive stance and the conception of building societal resilience in order to withstand future crises and disturbances. The preemptive logic of contemporary security and crisis management calls for a new type of resilient neoliberal subject who is willing to accept uncertainty and shoulder greater individual responsibility for her own security. This article offers a genealogical analysis of this development in Sweden since the end of the Cold War, highlighting the role now assigned to citizens within social and national security planning. I argue that seeking a return to a more traditional notion of ‘total defence’ blurs the previously important war/peace and crisis/security distinctions. While war preparedness in previous eras was an exceptional aspect of human life and citizenship, the conceptions of security now evolving bind together societal and national security such that civil and war preparedness are merged into an ever-present dimension of everyday existence. The analysis also reveals that the responsibilization of individuals introduces a moral dimension into security and generates new forms of citizen–citizen relations. These extricate the sovereign powers of the state and the liberalist social contract between the state and its citizens.

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“…In this way responsibilities for education, health, welfare, security and mutual care become the responsibility of the individual rather than the state. (Bansel, 2007: 285)As part of this responsibilization, individuals have to deal with significant amounts of uncertainty – something that is, in neo-liberalism, positive, a necessary and desirable component of the free market system (Friedman, 1982), which individuals must respond to and cope with by being resilient (Hill and Larner, 2017). Further, any inequalities are both a positive reflection of the functioning of the market and aspects that will be corrected by the market (Bonanno, 2017).…”

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“…In addition, the existence of such support can be marketed to students and, if the institution itself adheres to the view that language is concrete, it can feel reassured that it is supporting such students. Not only this but, if students do not do well or do not access such support, it can be argued that they are not being responsible or responsibilized (Bonanno, 2017) to take care that they do not fail, or they are not resilient (Hill and Larner, 2017). Thus, we argue that the persuasive power of the arguments neo-liberalism draws on are underpinned by this view of language, and we present this visually in Figure 1.…”

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How a view of language underpins approaches to supporting higher education students that facilitate neo-liberalism, and how to resist this

Richards

Pilcher

2018

Power and Education

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In this article, the authors argue that a particular view of language underpins approaches to supporting students in higher education, and that this view facilitates neo-liberalism. Universities worldwide have glossaries of terms such as 'describe' or 'discuss', and centralized units to help students understand what an 'essay' or 'report' is, and to 'critically evaluate'. This approach to support is underpinned by seeing language as a concrete abstract objectivist entity, separable from any context for analysis and teaching. Such a view is ideal for facilitating neo-liberalism and giving it persuasive power, as it underpins arguments to create support that is low-cost, applicable to all subjects and students, deliverable by almost anyone and replicable. Here, drawing on theory and data, the authors challenge this view of language and present and discuss examples to show how language is instead an individual subjectivist entity, unique to context and subject. They further show how support for students is undertaken by lecturers through dialogue in the subject context. The authors argue that current approaches to support should be changed to reflect this individual subjectivist nature of language. They therefore resist neo-liberalism by questioning the validity of the arguments used to give it persuasive power in its approach to support.

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The Resilient Subject

Cited by 9 publications

References 16 publications

Feminism and futurity: Geographies of resistance, resilience and reworking

Feminism and futurity: Geographies of resistance, resilience and reworking

The connections between crisis and war preparedness in Sweden

How a view of language underpins approaches to supporting higher education students that facilitate neo-liberalism, and how to resist this

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