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

This volume examines the concept and practice of resilience from the perspective of Filipina philosophers. It investigates the double-edged nature of resilience and other key assumptions and ideas about human resilience and resilient cultures and institutions. The chapters in the collection are intersectional in approach, drawing from feminist theory, social and political philosophy, critical theory, pragmatism, virtue theory, social epistemology, and decolonial theory in their engagement of the theme.

Part of the Academics, Politics and Society in the Post-Covid World series, the book will be of interest to scholars and students of philosophy, political theory, feminist theory, philosophy of education, cultural studies, and development studies. It will be valuable to academics in Philippine Studies, Asian and Southeast Asian Studies, and Global South Studies.

Tracy Llanera is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Connecticut, USA. She is author of Richard Rorty: Outgrowing Modern Nihilism (2020), co-author of A Defence of Nihilism (2021), and editor of Resilience: The Brown Babe’s Burden (in progress). She works at the intersection of social and political philosophy, philosophy of religion, feminist philosophy, and pragmatism, specializing on the topics of nihilism, extremism, conversion, and the politics of language. She is affiliated with the UConn Asian and Asian American Studies Institute and the UConn Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program. She is also a core member of Women Doing Philosophy, a global feminist organization of Filipina philosophers.