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Resiliency has become one of the most popular concepts within academic circles over the past decade or so. Scholars from various disciplines, including Engineering, Health, Politics, Religion, Biology, and Education have adopted the ideas of resilience and resiliency to explain the ways in which institutions, technologies, communities, and individuals might rebound from hardship, recover from stress or overuse, and regain an original shape and condition. In our diverse conversations about resilience, we almost always assume that resilience is positive--i.e. that we should feel good or emboldened about the very experiences or processes of resiliency. But some of the most resilient systems, structures, and institutions in our world have been massively disturbing, including patriarchy, militaristic violence, religious fanaticism, and white male supr ... 

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Humanities, Jane Austen, Crisis, Academy, PublicJane AustenHumanitiesResiliencePatriarchywhite male supremacypublic humanities