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100	1		_aBARGUÉS Pol
700			_aSCHMIDT Jessica
245			_aResilience and the rise of speculative humanitarianism: _bthinking difference through the Syrian refugee crisis/ _cPol Bargués and Jessica Schmidt
260			_c2021
520			_aThis article explores the nature of resilience-informed international interventions today by thinking about 'difference'. Up to the 1990s, international interventions were often characterised by a patronising tone in which backward others needed help to develop. Some 20 years later, key lessons learned were that others were so fundamentally different that efforts to assist them invariably failed. This article argues that contemporary approaches seeking to foster resilience are simultaneously propelled by both approaches. They are thus underpinned by two conflicting understandings of difference: the other that is in need and the other that cannot be attended. Even more, we contend that this contradiction is put to productive use in resilience-building: protracted crises today demand practitioners to 'be there', engaged permanently, to speculate, experiment, and affirm radical uncertainty. In order to analyse the novel features of resilience, we draw on Graham Harman's speculative realism and look at policy programming of the Syrian refugee crisis.
650			_aDIFFERENCE _xRESILIENCE _xOTHER _xDEVELOPMENT _xREFUGEE _xHUMANITARIAN _xHARMAN
773			_aMillennium: _gVol.49, No.2 January 2021, p.197-223 (39)
598			_aPOLITICS, REFUGEE, RESILIENCE
856			_uhttps://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/03058298211031297 _zClick here for full text
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