“Graceful Failure”: The Privatization of Resilience

O'Brien, Susie

doi:10.1080/10714413.2014.938565

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“…Moreover, as Neocleous (2013) emphasised, the affect of resilience is one of acquiescence, not resistance. From the field of education, O’Brien (2014: 268) further suggests that resilience works to obscure and displace politics, thereby occluding the very problems it is supposed to address. Similarly, Henderson and Denny (2015) conclude their wide-ranging evaluation of the rise of ‘the resilient child’ within international development discourse by indicating how it removes protest and antagonism from the field of debate.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

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“…Surprisingly, given the wider political and cultural emphasis on the discourse of 'resilience', and the extensive literatures on this (Henderson and Denny, 2015;O'Brien, 2014), G&S treat resilience together with coping in a brief two page, section (3.7: 27-28), paradoxically to make the important point that they should be distinguished:…”

Section: Gands' Different View Of Resilience: Contextually Limited and mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Surprisingly, given the wider political and cultural emphasis on the discourse of ‘resilience’, and the extensive literatures on this (Henderson and Denny, 2015; O’Brien, 2014), G&S treat resilience together with coping in a brief two page, section (3.7: 27–28), paradoxically to make the important point that they should be distinguished:Resilience is often thought of as ‘bouncing back’ in the face of setbacks. However, resilience is more than whether individuals continue to persist despite minor setbacks, which is more similar to the concept of ‘grit’.…”

Section: Gands’ Different View Of Resilience: Contextually Limited and mentioning

confidence: 99%

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(Re)sourcing the Character and Resilience Manifesto: Suppressions and Slippages of (Re)presentation and Selective Affectivities

Burman

2018

Sociological Research Online

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This article offers a critical discursive reading of the 2014 Character and Resilience Manifesto (hereafter the Manifesto), focusing on the sources and legitimation strategies supporting its claims. As an All Party Parliamentary Group on Social Mobility document, the Manifesto traces both old and new discursive tropes framing policy strategy on education and social care, extending into current political agendas around mental health and well-being and even child safeguarding and securitisation. While the Manifesto’s supposed evidence-based claims draw extensively on a specifically commissioned literature review undertaken by Gutman and Schoon, problems are identified with how this is represented in the Manifesto, including significant omissions and slippages within Gutman and Schoon’s text and between this and the Manifesto. Analysis highlights exaggerations of the claims made in Gutman and Schoon’s review in the Manifesto while important conceptual clarifications (between resilience and coping and the non-generalisability of resilience) are overlooked. Commentators’ cautions over the evaluation and comparability of current programmes also fail to appear. Beyond such asymmetries, a common narrative identified across both texts reformulates emotions away from their ‘soft’, culturally feminised, associations to become ‘hard and tough’, and abstracted from relationship and (sociopolitical) context. Clearly, such gendering of emotions can be situated in relation to wider discourses of feminisation, alongside others de-emphasising classed and racialised inequalities. Overall, the Manifesto performs its own rhetoric, manifesting its own buoyancy to resist critical engagement and further the contemporary moral doctrine of inciting voluntarist optimistic subjects, devoid of attention to class, gender or racialised inequalities.

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Section: Gands' Different View Of Resilience: Contextually Limited and mentioning

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(Re)sourcing the Character and Resilience Manifesto: Suppressions and Slippages of (Re)presentation and Selective Affectivities

Burman

2018

Sociological Research Online

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“…Policy critics have questioned the utility of a resilience narrative as a developmental aim for children (O'Brien, ; Henderson & Denny, ; Burman, ). While findings from this study may support such caution, nevertheless the potential indicated in the alternative constructions raised by young people gives sway to the possibility to reconstruct the key definitional terms underpinning school mental health‐promotion strategies.…”

Section: Conclusion: Reclaiming Resilience In Schools As a Route To Cmentioning

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‘Push on through’: Children’s perspectives on the narratives of resilience in schools identified for intensive mental health promotion

Brown

Dixon

2019

British Educational Res J

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Child mental health is a growing concern for policymakers across the global north. Schools have become a key site for mental health interventions, with new programmes aimed at promoting ‘resilience’, through which children may maintain or regain mental health during adversity. As one of the first studies to explore the early impact of intensive mental health promotion in schools from children’s perspectives, we adopt a governmentality approach to consider the logic and techniques of such programmes with a specific focus on England. An innovative visual methodology was used to focus on student perspectives of mental health interventions in school. Young peoples’ photo representations of mental health were collected and used to stimulate focus group discussions with 65 students aged 12–14, across seven schools. ‘Resilience’ was seen to be the key organising concept for mental health interventions in schools. The concept was viewed as narrowly focused on attitude towards—and performance in—school work, with individuals being encouraged to ‘push on through’ difficulties to achieve success. Young people were critical of this approach, suggesting several alternatives. These included increased access to independent mental health professionals, safe spaces within schools and mental health education that addressed the social and affective dimensions of mental health difficulties.

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“…In the context of sex work specifically, resilience provides individuals with the ability to better respond to and manage the stressors, danger, and discrimination they face. Burnes, Long, and Schept have argued that a resilience-focused lens on sex work contains an inherent critique of studies that 'focus on sex worker pathology but leave out strengths and resilience factors' [13] (p. 138), and an increasing interest in resilience corresponded with these shifts away from a deficit approach [14].…”

Section: Resiliencementioning

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Sex Workers’ Online Humor as Evidence of Resilience

Easterbrook-Smith

2023

Sexes

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Sex workers’ humor has received comparatively little attention in the literature to date, and work that does consider this phenomenon focuses on humor in face-to-face contexts. Increasingly, elements of sex workers’ labor and community building take place online. This article examines the emergence of sex work humor in online spaces, considering how this humor provides evidence of resilience within this community. The article uses a critical discourse analysis approach blended with a cultural studies lens to examine 171 discrete texts drawn from sex work communities in Australia and New Zealand. These include social media postings from peer-led organizations and correspondence between sex workers and their clients, which was profiled in news media during the COVID-19 lockdowns. The humor evident within these texts falls into three major categories: humor about clients; humor as a mechanism of discussing stigma and discrimination; and humor as an agent of activism and social change. The findings indicate that humor can be evidence of resilience among sex-working communities, that it is politically productive and effective from a communications perspective, and present the possibility that it may also contribute to resilience. The presence of humor in online sex work spaces of sociality further highlights the importance of these spaces for community building, and draws attention to additional harms created by deplatforming.

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“Graceful Failure”: The Privatization of Resilience

Cited by 8 publications

References 41 publications

(Re)sourcing the Character and Resilience Manifesto: Suppressions and Slippages of (Re)presentation and Selective Affectivities

(Re)sourcing the Character and Resilience Manifesto: Suppressions and Slippages of (Re)presentation and Selective Affectivities

‘Push on through’: Children’s perspectives on the narratives of resilience in schools identified for intensive mental health promotion

Sex Workers’ Online Humor as Evidence of Resilience

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