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Individual Resilience

Jade Garratt · Individual & Wellbeing, Power

Critiques the framing of individual resilience and 'grit' as responses to unsafe or difficult working conditions. Argues asking individuals to absorb systemic costs is a category error — and that resilience discourse frequently functions to absolve organisations of structural responsibility.

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