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The World Bank’s Neoliberal Language of Resilience

In: Risking Capitalism

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The language of resilience is increasingly used by International organizations that seek to respond to contemporary social, economic, and environmental crises. This paper focuses on the World Bank’sWorld Development Reports, and its uses of resilience. By deploying a quantitative critical discourse analysis, this paper shows how in the recent years resilience has gained traction within the Bank’s discourse. It further analyses the evolution of the genre, the style, and the ideational content of the Bank’s discourse related to resilience. Resilience is now depicted as something that can be built and not just observed. Furthermore, it is increasingly reified in these reports and ascribed to a whole gamut of entities. The ontological indistinction of resilience reinforces its fit with contemporary neoliberal governance.

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  • Romain Felli, 2016. "The World Bank’s Neoliberal Language of Resilience," Research in Political Economy, in: Risking Capitalism, volume 31, pages 267-295, Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
    • Handle: RePEc:eme:rpeczz:s0161-723020160000031014
    DOI: 10.1108/S0161-723020160000031014
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    1. Peter Ferguson & Linda Wollersheim, 2023. "From sustainable development to resilience? (Dis)continuities in climate and development policy governance discourse," Sustainable Development, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 31(1), pages 67-77, February.

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