Resilience and the Brown Babes Burden

This volume explores the various ways that the concept and practice of resilience inhabit the thinking and lived experiences of Filipina philosophers.

This volume examines the concept and practice of resilience from the perspective of Filipina philosophers. It investigates the double-edged nature of resilience and other key assumptions and ideas about human resilience and resilient cultures and institutions. The chapters in the collection are intersectional in approach, drawing from feminist theory, social and political philosophy, critical theory, pragmatism, virtue theory, social epistemology, and decolonial theory in their engagement of the theme.

Part of the Academics, Politics and Society in the Post-Covid World series, the book will be of interest to scholars and students of philosophy, political theory, feminist theory, philosophy of education, cultural studies, and development studies. It will be valuable to academics in Philippine Studies, Asian and Southeast Asian Studies, and Global South Studies.

Autorentext

Tracy Llanera is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Connecticut, USA. She is author of Richard Rorty: Outgrowing Modern Nihilism (2020) and co-author of A Defence of Nihilism (2021). Llanera works at the intersection of social and political philosophy, philosophy of religion, feminist philosophy, and pragmatism, specializing on the topics of nihilism, extremism, conversion, and the politics of language. She is a core member of Women Doing Philosophy, a global feminist organization of Filipina philosophers.

Inhalt

1 The Burden of Resilience: An Introduction PART 1: Theorizing Resilience 2 Resilience as a Normative Ideal: Towards an Ethics of Resilience Discourse 3 Resilience or Resistance? Investigating Resilience and Resistance as Strategies Against Workers' Oppression 4 Uncoupling Resilience from Violence: The Grit Model vs. The Social Connection Model of Resilience 5 Resilient Resistance and Resistant Knowledge Projects: Subtracting Resilience from Neoliberalism **PART 2: Resilience and the Global Pandemic 6 Should Teachers be Resilient? Emergency Remote Teaching in Pandemic Times 7 Emotions and Filipino Resilience 8 Bayanihan and Community Pantries: Redefining Filipino Resilience in the COVID-19 Pandemic PART 3: Filipino Practices of Resilience 9 Unpacking Political Resilience: Feminist Conversations on Rape and Rape Culture 10 Time's Up Ateneo: Moving from Institutional Complicity to Courageous Institutional Resilience in the Face of Sexual Violence 11 PhotoKwento: Co-constructing Women's Narratives of Disaster Recovery PART 4: Resilience and Philosophy** 12 Can Brown Women be First-rate Philosophers? 13 Three Brown Babe's Complaints: Institutional Discrimination, Western Feminists, and First World Leftists