Resilience and the Brown Babes Burden - Writings By Filipina Philosophers

This volume explores the various ways that the concept and practice of resilience inhabit the thinking and lived experiences of Filipina philosophers.

List of contents

1 The Burden of Resilience: An Introduction PART 1: Theorizing Resilience 2 Resilience as a Normative Ideal: Towards an Ethics of Resilience Discourse 3 Resilience or Resistance? Investigating Resilience and Resistance as Strategies Against Workers’ Oppression 4 Uncoupling Resilience from Violence: The Grit Model vs. The Social Connection Model of Resilience 5 Resilient Resistance and Resistant Knowledge Projects: Subtracting Resilience from Neoliberalism PART 2: Resilience and the Global Pandemic 6 Should Teachers be Resilient? Emergency Remote Teaching in Pandemic Times 7 Emotions and Filipino Resilience 8 Bayanihan and Community Pantries: Redefining Filipino Resilience in the COVID-19 Pandemic PART 3: Filipino Practices of Resilience 9 Unpacking Political Resilience: Feminist Conversations on Rape and Rape Culture 10 Time’s Up Ateneo: Moving from Institutional Complicity to Courageous Institutional Resilience in the Face of Sexual Violence 11 PhotoKwento: Co-constructing Women’s Narratives of Disaster Recovery PART 4: Resilience and Philosophy 12 Can Brown Women be First-rate Philosophers? 13 Three Brown Babe’s Complaints: Institutional Discrimination, Western Feminists, and First World Leftists

About the author

Tracy Llanera is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Connecticut, USA. She is author of Richard Rorty: Outgrowing Modern Nihilism (2020) and co-author of A Defence of Nihilism (2021). Llanera works at the intersection of social and political philosophy, philosophy of religion, feminist philosophy, and pragmatism, specializing on the topics of nihilism, extremism, conversion, and the politics of language. She is a core member of Women Doing Philosophy, a global feminist organization of Filipina philosophers.

Summary

This volume explores the various ways that the concept and practice of resilience inhabit the thinking and lived experiences of Filipina philosophers.

Product details

• Authors: Tracy Llanera
• Assisted by: Tracy Llanera (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 01.08.2025, delayed
• EAN: 9781032902951
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3290295-1
• No. of pages: 222
• Series: Academics, Politics and Society in the Post-Covid World
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; Ethnic Studies, Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, EDUCATION / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, Feminism & feminist theory, Philosophy & theory of education, Philosophy and theory of education, Feminism and feminist theory, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General, Philippines;resilience;women's studies