Resilience as a failed concept

In this book chapter Robin May Schott argues that "resilience" is a failed concept, both practically and conceptually. 

Focusing on the programs introduced in the US military in response to the post-9/11 wars - Comprehensive Soldier Fitness and Comprehensive Soldier and Family Fitness - she highlights several problems that are emblematic of more general criticisms of the concept: it presents an ideal individual who is capable of infinitely adapting to crisis and risk; it implies there are universal, one-size-fits-all solutions. 

More nuanced approaches to war acknowledge the complexity of context, changes in responses over time, and that recovery is a process. Working with the notion of failure in discussions of governmentality and ideology critique, she analyzes how the failure of resilience has contributed to the militarization of intimate relations.