Editorial: Decolonising Resilience
Reimagining Economies Beyond Extraction
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https://doi.org/10.25120/jre.5.1.2025.4257Keywords:
Resilience, Decolonial Economics, Economic and Ecological Coordination, Behavioural Finance, Cultural Economies, SustainabilityAbstract
This editorial situates the contributions of this issue of the Journal of Resilient Economies within a decolonial framing of resilience. The featured papers explore resilience across multiple scales: regional coordination of ecological and economic systems in the Yangtze River Economic Belt (Wang et al., 2025), behavioural finance under ambiguity and framing effects (Kiky, 2025), and cultural economies expressed through nightlife motivations in Yogyakarta (Anggraini et al., 2025). Although diverse in focus, each paper highlights a common challenge: the persistence of extractive, uniform, and short-term economic logics that undermine sustainable futures. Building on earlier editorials that positioned resilience as partnership, transformative adaptation, and empowerment across frontiers (Chaiechi, 2021; 2022; 2023), this editorial argues that resilience must also be understood as a decolonial project. Moving away from colonial legacies of exploitation and Eurocentric standards of rationality, resilience requires embracing plural knowledges, ecological interdependence, and cultural specificity. The studies in this issue demonstrate how resilience emerges not only through technical models and policy interventions but also through human motivations, cultural practices, and community agency. By reimagining resilience as decolonial, this issue contributes to broader conversations on designing economic systems that are robust, adaptive, inclusive, and sustainable.
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