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Resilience and geographic thought -- Resilience as essentially contested concept -- Resilience as subjugated knowledge -- Resilience as critique -- Resilience as design -- Resilience as control -- Un-worlding resilience -- Conclusions : re-designing resilience?

The 2007 launch of the Caribbean Catastrophic Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF) introduced a new mechanism of state security against the uncertainties of climate change. Proponents argue that increasing the ability of member-states to finance disaster recovery through catastrophe insurance mitigates the effects of increasingly frequent and intense hurricanes and thus contributes to climate change adaptation. In contrast, I offer a critical analysis of the CCRIF that draws out how it facilitates what I call the 'financialization of disaster management'. The introduction of financial logics and techniques enables the state and capital to visualize a population's self-organizing adaptive capacity as both a threat to state-based forms of order and a value that can be leveraged on capital markets as catastrophe risk. Leveraging enhances a state's ability to repair its critical infrastructure and preemptively negate undesirable adaptations. The CCRIF blends risk pooling with parametric insurance techniques to turn the uncertainty surrounding a population's immanent adaptability into catastrophe risks that can be leveraged to enhance state security and capital accumulation in an emergent environment.

Introduction: The power of life / Stephanie Wakefield, Kevin Grove and David Chandler -- Resilient Earth : Gaia, geopolitics and the Anthropocene / Simon Dalby -- Security for a fragmented world : ecology and the challenge of the Anthropocene / Madeleine Fagan -- The end of resilience? Rethinking adaptation in the Anthropocene / David Chandler -- Colliding times : urgency, resilience and the politics of living with volcanic gas emissions in the Anthropocene / Sébastien Nobert, Harold Bellanger Rodríguez and Xochilt Hernandez -- Resilient arts of government : the birth of a 'systems-cybernetic governmentality' / Sara Nelson -- Destituting resilience : contextualizing and contesting science for the Anthropocene / Kevin Grove and Allain Barnett -- Ironies of the Anthropocene / Lauren Rickards -- 'Primordial wounds' : resilience, trauma, and the rifted body of the Earth / Nigel Clark -- More of the same? Life beyond the liberal one world world / Stephanie Wakefield -- What would you do (and who would you kill) in order to save the world? : dialectical resilience / Claire Colebrook.