This paper draws on Shakespeare to consider how contemporary global approaches are shifting away from a human-centred view under resilience governance.
The opening of The Tempest - '‘What cares these roarers for the name of the king?’ - suggests that disasters may destabilise social hierarchies, challenge sovereign hubris and expand human social ethical concern.
However, the politics of knowledge underpinning resilience governance is not levelling human divisions, so much as degrading the human.
The paper will explore how resilience systems models decentre humanity and demoralise humanity as ethical subjects with implications for humanitarian responses.
