Towards a crisis <i>of</i> resilience? Eight takes on a troubling concept

<p dir="ltr">Framed by the contradictory tonalities of United Nations (UN) discourse, the paper argues that the global governance concept of resilience is being drawn into the very crises it seeks to mitigate, pointing to a possible crisis of resilience as a master concept for governing the Risk Society. Through a wide-ranging interdisciplinary review, the paper therefore reconsiders the utility of the concept in addressing anthropocenic crises, and potential strategies for addressing the cognitive dissonance evoked by the UN’s crisis discourse. It elicits three mainstream and five critical strategies for the study and practice of resilience. In synthesising these strategies, it provides conceptual clarification, highlights multiple grounds from which the crisis might be addressed, and seeks to inform future urban research and engagement with evolving theories and practices of resilience.</p>