ABSTRACT
The study of resilience in interconnected societies may appear pleonastic at first, because relationships and interconnections constitute the very essence of societas, which derives from the Latin word for associated. The analysis of resilience follows an understanding of the world as radically relational, an ontology that is embraced and expressed in the different theories and approaches of poststructuralism. Theories of radical relationality embrace that which is in-between, emergent and processual as they understand phenomena through a logic of becoming. Analytical conclusions that can be drawn from the commitment to relationality are that phenomena can only be understood through the heterogeneous networks they are situated in. Finally, when using governmentality and subjectification as analytical concepts, one also explores the technological aspect of governing. This aspect refers to practices and artifacts of governing that establish a new relationship between the citizen and the state, which include technologies of the self or self-regulation, but also technology in the sense of technical artifacts.
