States of Protection and Emergency: The Rise of Resilience

Abstract

In recent years the concept of ‘resilience’ has become central to the discussion of shifting social and political histories and the framework of agents and agencies operating under the guise of national security and disaster mitigation. The use of ‘resilience’ as a conceptual metaphor in the language of such policy, and as an active rationale for the modus operandi of governance underpinning domestic emergency, is becoming increasingly pervasive (Buckle et al., 2000).