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Taking the UK city of Bristol as a case study, this chapter focuses on the concept of resilience in neoliberal governance and the emergence of so-called “resilient subjectivities”. Drawing on insights from assemblage theory, we argue that resilient subjectivities are not stable and durable. Rather, they are processual, mutable and dynamic—ever shifting such that any individual or group might at certain times be more or less resilient than at others.
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Hill, L.J., Larner, W. (2017). The Resilient Subject. In: Higgins, V., Larner, W. (eds) Assembling Neoliberalism. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58204-1_13
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