"Resilience" is a coping strategy, not a virtue.
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"Resilience" is a coping strategy, not a virtue. Celebrating resilience without interrogating the challenges, problems, and structural issues folks are routinely forced to confront runs the risk of idealizing the capacity to suffer.
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"Resilience" is a coping strategy, not a virtue. Celebrating resilience without interrogating the challenges, problems, and structural issues folks are routinely forced to confront runs the risk of idealizing the capacity to suffer.
I think of "resilience" in terms of the 7 generations of First Nations, Inuit and Metis peoples who have so far avoided the fate that the Indian Act hoped would be the result.
I think their "resilience" has been addressing those things, but it has been carried through generations.
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"Resilience" is a coping strategy, not a virtue. Celebrating resilience without interrogating the challenges, problems, and structural issues folks are routinely forced to confront runs the risk of idealizing the capacity to suffer.
This was a quote by a Twitter user. But I left Twitter, so I can't check that anymore
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I think of "resilience" in terms of the 7 generations of First Nations, Inuit and Metis peoples who have so far avoided the fate that the Indian Act hoped would be the result.
I think their "resilience" has been addressing those things, but it has been carried through generations.
@AnnieBuddy Yes. The quote I posted assumes the privilege that you have some sort of choice. They had not and still haven't.
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"Resilience" is a coping strategy, not a virtue. Celebrating resilience without interrogating the challenges, problems, and structural issues folks are routinely forced to confront runs the risk of idealizing the capacity to suffer.
@sashag I especially hate it described to children. Children are survivors, many with invisible wounds.
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@AnnieBuddy Yes. The quote I posted assumes the privilege that you have some sort of choice. They had not and still haven't.
@sashag @AnnieBuddy I would also like to add, as a First Nations person, that composure has been weaponized in much the same way - they praise you for your composure in the face of ridiculous abuse/neglect/aggression/bullying/racism (and go absolutely bugfuck if you let that drop and they see the “merciless Indian savage”/“wagon burner” underneath)
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"Resilience" is a coping strategy, not a virtue. Celebrating resilience without interrogating the challenges, problems, and structural issues folks are routinely forced to confront runs the risk of idealizing the capacity to suffer.
@sashag Not long ago there was a political constituency in primary education circles that idolized the concept. Their pet word was "grit." It was disgusting.
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"Resilience" is a coping strategy, not a virtue. Celebrating resilience without interrogating the challenges, problems, and structural issues folks are routinely forced to confront runs the risk of idealizing the capacity to suffer.
Ah yes.
Case in point:
Resilience is the one quality you can't do without if you want a research career in the university. By consequence, we are all terribly resilient, and the underlying problems that make resilience a necessity can continue unaddressed....
Sigh.
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