Editorial: Decolonising Resilience – Power, Care, Culture, and Sustainability in Contemporary Economies
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https://doi.org/10.25120/jre.5.2.2025.4311Keywords:
Decolonial Resilience, Sustainable Economies, Care and Culture, Plural Rationalities, Social Capital, Climate and Ecological GovernanceAbstract
Resilience has become a central concept in contemporary economic and policy discourse, yet it is frequently mobilised in narrow, depoliticised ways that reproduce extractive logics and colonial assumptions about value, rationality, and progress. This editorial introduces the special issue Decolonising Resilience: Power, Care, Culture, and Sustainability in Contemporary Economies, arguing that resilience must be reimagined as a decolonial project. Drawing on insights from behavioural economics, wellbeing research, climate–economy analysis, cultural studies, digital sustainability, and Indigenous knowledge systems, the editorial situates the contributions of this issue within a broader critique of universalist economic frameworks. The papers collectively demonstrate that resilience is socially produced, culturally embedded, and shaped by asymmetries of power across regions, institutions, and knowledge systems. By foregrounding plural rationalities, informal networks of care, cultural economies, ecological governance, and Traditional Ecological Knowledge as economic infrastructure, this issue advances a relational and justice-oriented understanding of resilience. The editorial concludes that decolonising resilience is essential for moving beyond extractive development models and for designing economies that are adaptive, inclusive, and sustainable in an era of compounding global crises.
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