ABSTRACT
This final chapter is an analytical summary of the book, restating the necessity and desire to explore the multiple and contested dimensions to resilience, rather than simply discarding it or focusing myopically on only one of its sides. Here the book takes a step away from its subject material and casts an eye back over the research trajectory leading to its culmination. Some have argued that, conceptually, ‘resilience’ has become a victim of its own success. While it may be odd to think of victimisation as a term of relevance to ideas and concepts themselves, this nevertheless offers useful pause for thinking through the relative place and value of resilience for making sense of real victim’s experiences. In reflecting upon the experience and, at times, difficulty of researching a concept at the height of its political and academic ascendency to date in the social sciences, the chapter reiterates some of the problems of researching survivors in an environment where talk of both victimisation and trauma are ubiquitous. In doing so, the chapter poses some of the methodological tensions and limitations around (mis)representation. Finally, the book concludes by providing future trajectories to be developed in this area of research which link back to the discussions provided in Chapters 6 and 7.
