Resilience and the Brown Babe’s Burden Writings by Filipina Philosophers

This volume explores the various ways that the concept and practice of resilience inhabit the thinking and lived experiences of Filipina philosophers. It features broad and intersectional philosophical approaches in its examination of the idea of resilience, including but not limited to feminist theory, social and political philosophy, critical theory, pragmatism, virtue theory, social epistemology, and decolonial theory. The authors explore, in various ways, both the double-edged nature of resilience, and other key assumptions and ideas about human resilience and resilient cultures and institutions.Part of the Academics, Politics and Society in the Post-Covid Worldseries, the book will be of interest to students and scholars of philosophy, feminism, philosophy of education, and development studies. It will also appeal to academics and researchers working on the theme of human resilience and contemporary scholarship in Philippine Studies and the Global South.