This paper examines three common critiques of ‘resilience’: (i) that it is a ‘top-down’ policy discourse that pays too little regard to local specificities; (ii) that resilience policy represents a neoliberal shift towards the responsibilisation of communities and a retreat of the state from its role in providing protection; and (iii) that the focus on resilience tends to divert attention from the underlying causes of vulnerability. Using data collected after the 2015 earthquake in Nepal, the paper argues that these critiques have mixed salience in this context, but that (i) and (iii) in particular point to important problems in how the central government and its international partners have approached enhancing the resilience of communities. While there are benefits to considering resilience at the local level, it is important to recognise the inequalities within communities, how these might be reflected in differential degrees of vulnerability, and how they might be reinforced through resilience-building programmes.

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重新审视对复原力政策的批评：2015 年尼泊尔地震后来自 Barpak 的证据

本文考察了对“弹性”的三种常见批评：（i）它是一种“自上而下”的政策话语，对当地的具体情况关注得太少；(ii) 复原力政策代表了新自由主义向社区责任化的转变，以及国家在提供保护方面的作用；(iii) 对复原力的关注往往会转移人们对脆弱性根本原因的注意力。使用 2015 年尼泊尔地震后收集的数据，该论文认为这些批评在这种情况下具有不同的显着性，但 (i) 和 (iii) 特别指出了中央政府及其国际合作伙伴如何加强社区的复原力。虽然在地方层面考虑复原力是有好处的，