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  • Health Policy and Research
  • Social Determinants of Health
  • Community Health Interventions

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  • Resilience narratives are increasingly prominent in health policy and research.
  • These approaches are often presented as empowering alternatives to deficit-based models.
  • Critical analysis of resilience discourse in health is currently lacking.

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  • To critically analyze the underlying logics of resilience discourse in health.
  • To examine the implications and effects of this discourse.
  • To explore alternative conceptualizations of resilience in health contexts.

Main Methods:

  • Critical analysis of resilience discourse within health policy and research.
  • Examination of the assumptions and operationalization of resilience concepts.
  • Comparative analysis of individualistic versus social relationality logics.

Main Results:

  • Resilience discourse is predominantly understood and applied through neoliberal, individualistic, and reductionist frameworks.
  • This individualistic framing establishes normative standards for 'proper resilience,' potentially leading to guilt and shame.
  • Alternative logics, such as social relationality, highlight collective values, practices, and identities, particularly in First Nations scholarship.

Conclusions:

  • The dominant individualistic understanding of resilience in health can be detrimental.
  • A shift towards social relationality offers a more empowering and collective approach to resilience.
  • First Nations scholarship provides valuable insights into relational resilience for advancing health interventions.