INSITE Journal_01 Performing Resilience

Sometimes words reappear into the public sphere to act as antidotes to the status quo—words that offer alternatives to endure, resist, and adapt to transitions and flux, but that also make it possible to inhabit different places and anticipate the near future. During the past decades, one of these words has been resilience, a term with many interpretations, yet essentially defined in psychology as an ability to reinvent ourselves after adversity.