How can we restore something when there is nothing? How can a political order endure if protracted shocks continually deplete their resources? The resilience turn in global politics, particularly in peace and conflict studies and development studies was ground-breaking in how the epistemic community conceptualised political orders. It paved the way for an epistemic shift from looking at state fragility into community resilience. Building on existing contribution, this paper explores community resilience as an epistemic move rather than previous labelling states as fragile. It takes a conceptual departure from a point where depletion is less explored in the scholarship’s inquiry into community resilience.

Dr Prime Ragandang is a Political Science Assistant Professor at Mindanao State University-Iligan Institute of Technology (The Philippines) where he earned a doctorate in Sustainable Development Studies in 2018. He is a founding member of the Seeds for Mindanao’s Advocacy and Youth Leadership (SMAYL). Prime recently completed a second PhD at The Australian National University, where he explores the intergenerational intersect of community resilience and collective memory.

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