Resilience and the Brown Babe’s Burden

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.

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