ABSTRACT
This chapter describes that the resilience has emerged as a counterpart to trauma in the affective politics of the global event. It seeks to valorise market life through tropes of adaptability. The chapter seeks to foreground and explore the affective dimensions of the resilient market subject. The section on An emotional market subject addresses the critical literature on the role of emotion and emotionality in resilience discourse, citing the assumed complicity between such 'responsibilisation' and neo-liberal austerity. The section on A resilient market subject engages the work of Jack Halberstam and her argument that, while so often a site of heteronormative governance, the affective politics of children's cinema may be developing new spaces of possibility for feeling and expressing intimacy. The chapter outlines an alternative imaginary of resilience that foregrounds a capacity for resistance by reflecting on the capacity for self-making market subjects to re-work the conditions of possibility for their affective lives.
