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Resilience training as disciplinary performativity
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While military resilience programmes are often presented as tools to enhance soldiers' capacity to withstand psychological stress and improve operational performance, critical scholarship has raised concerns about how these programmes may also stigmatize vulnerability, moralize conduct, and govern subjectivity. As much of this work has focused on discourse, policy, and institutional rationalities, less attention has been paid to how resilience is produced and sustained in everyday practice. Drawing on Michel Foucault's concept of disciplinary power and Judith Butler's theory of performativity, this paper reconceptualizes resilience training as a co-constitutive system of discipline and performance. From this perspective, resilience extends beyond individual capacity to involve ongoing performative acts through which institutional norms are enacted and stabilized. This shift also redirects the focus from programme outcomes to the everyday mechanisms through which subjects are constituted, revealing how these programmes may, paradoxically, heighten the very vulnerability they seek to address while subtly opening possibilities for subversion.
Keywords:
Resilience training
Michel Foucault
stigma
Judith Butler
performative acts
subversion
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