Socio-ecological resilience in Sharon Bala’s The Boat People
Socio-ecological resilience in Sharon Bala’s The Boat People

Summary/Abstract: This article examines the notion of socio-ecological resilience and its current alignment withneoliberalism in Sharon Bala’s The Boat People (2018). Drawing on Philippe Bourbeau’s theo-rizing about the interconnection of resilience and security and contemporary studies of resil-ience, this article explores the current use of socio-ecological resilience as a government strategyto deal with global humanitarian crises posed by refugees and asylum seekers. Moreover, thisarticle examines the main elements, motifs, and narrative devices used in the novel to producean aesthetics that highlights the chaos, uncertainty, and hopelessness resulting from the articu-lation of political notions of resilience in neoliberal times.

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