Vol. 5 No. 2 (2025): Decolonising Resilience: Power, Care, Culture, and Sustainability in Contemporary Economies

The concept of resilience has become central to contemporary economic, social, and sustainability discourse. However, dominant resilience frameworks are often rooted in Global North epistemologies, technocratic policy logics, and market-centred approaches that overlook historical power asymmetries, colonial legacies, and locally grounded forms of adaptation and care.

This Special Issue proposes a decolonised rethinking of resilience, foregrounding lived experience, informal systems, cultural values, and non-Western knowledge systems. Rather than treating resilience as a neutral or purely technical concept, the issue interrogates who defines resilience, for whom, and at what cost.

Bringing together interdisciplinary scholarship, this issue explores how resilience is enacted through informal solidarity networks, cultural practices, digital economies, tourism, environmental adaptation, and post-conflict reconstruction, particularly in contexts shaped by colonial histories, structural inequality, and climate vulnerability.

The Special Issue welcomes contributions addressing (but not limited to):

• Decolonising resilience theory and policy

• Informal economies, care networks, and social solidarity

• Cultural values and everyday practices of resilience

• Sustainability, climate change, and post-colonial development

• Digital economies, influencers, and sustainability narratives

• Tourism, nightlife economies, and local identity

• Resilience in conflict-affected and post-conflict economies

• Power, representation, and knowledge production in resilience discourse