ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts provided in the preceding chapters of this book. The book examines the resilience secures freedom by freeing security. It also examines this evaluation of resilience by conducting a genealogy. A genealogy is a critical historical inquiry into the origins of values. The book demonstrates the values emerge alongside the formation of new ways of thinking, new ways of being in the world, which must themselves be subject to questioning. A principal aim of this genealogy was to challenge the conventional origin story of resilience that it was discovered as a natural property of living systems in disparate academic fields from the 1970s. Treating resilience as a value encourages people to move away from analyses seeking to uncover the true meaning of resilience. The book identifies through historical elucidation, distinct orders of governance still discernible within the resilience discourses of UK civil contingencies.
