ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the global meaning of resilience by examining how international donors and advocates of Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) understand disaster resilience. Through an analysis of strategic documents, project descriptions and images of DRR, a global worldview of resilience is described predominately in neoliberal and modernist terms. The chapter examines how the international DRR community conceptualise resilience in texts and images and classify observed regularities that emerge from this analysis. Legitimisation is directly connected to a worldview because it invokes a reason for its existence. Method refers to how the donor promotes resilience, highlighting the activity associated with advocating DRR. The temporal typification that constitutes a global worldview of resilience – the future–present – is a culturally embedded commitment to creating the future in the present to the point that the future is ‘no longer predicted, it is actively constructed’.
