When revolution fails, when the resistance crumbles, what’s left? The ACFM crew consider the magical properties of resilience in this Trip episode, touching on everything from the colonial legacy of the ‘stiff upper lip’ to contemporary narratives of trauma and victimhood.

Nadia, Keir and Jem wonder if the emerging focus on resilience is a response to hustle culture, if resilience is a useless dream of ‘folk politics’, whether humans and animals can flourish in the ruins of capitalism, and what a left politics of resilience could look like in an era of constant economic and climate shocks.

No tunes in this particular show, but plenty of ideas from Catherine Liu, Sheryl Sandberg, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing and more.

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Books: Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant – Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy / Catherine Liu – Traumatized: The New Politics of Public Suffering / Jennifer M. Silva – Coming Up Short: Working-Class Adulthood in an Age of Uncertainty / Isabella Weber – Anti-Fascist Economics / Stockholm Resilience Centre – The Safe Operating Space for Humanity / Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing – The Mushroom at the End of the World / Hazel Sheffield – Frontierlands / Adam Greenfield – Lifehouse: Taking Care of Ourselves in a World on Fire

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