Conceptualizing and Researching Resilience: Need for Theoretical and Methodological Triangulation

The concept of ‘resilience’ is not independent of physical, psychological, cultural, and political environments. The human capacity to sustain is ingrained in the contextualization and internalization of resilience. This makes the notion of resilience an interdisciplinary construct requiring theoretical and methodological triangulation. A decontextualization of the concept ‘resilience’ and an attempt to the universalization of the resilience theories may undermine the broader socio-cultural context, indigenous understanding, and wider/deeper scope of resilience studies. In this presentation, I will reflect on rethinking resilience with a ground-up approach. The ‘discipline-centered studies on resilience could not address the conceptual and methodological gaps; hence, these limitations restricted the contextual, wider/deeper understanding of resilience. • ‘Resilience’ lies at the nexus of social, cultural, psychological, and political factors that I label as ‘resilience mosaic’. I place perceptions and experience (of risk and vulnerability) in the situational context and ‘resilience mosaic’ in the constitutional context.