ABSTRACT
Resilience has emerged as central to contemporary political discourse. Whilst espousing positive
notions of recovery and adaptability within an interconnected and unpredictable world, resilience
has political and managerial dimensions that seek to exert control over uncertainties (White and
O’Hare, 2014). Along with allied notions of preparedness and precaution, resilience contains a
compelling anticipatory logic ‘whereby a future becomes cause and justification for some form of
action in the here and now’ (Anderson, 2010, p. 778).
