ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the conditions under which resilient populations could emerge as a referent of emergency governance. It also examines transformations in the order of power/knowledge underpinning liberal governance. The chapter begins by recognizing the importance which the natural status of the market played in the historical genesis of liberalism as an art of governance. As disciplines with an authority on the composition of the natural, the historical co-evolution of economics and ecology is quickly traced with the aim of rendering explicit their common archaeological structure. The simultaneous rearticulation of ecology and economics within the framework of the complexity sciences is taken as a profound shift in the order of the natural enabling the development of novel forms of government. This novel account of nature coupled with environmental techniques of government is understood to forge a novel regime of power/knowledge The chapter explores the appearance of resilient populations as function of the emergence of this regime.
