This article engages with the taken-for-granted separation between resilience as stability and resilience as transformation after disasters. It examines whether strategies adopted after climate disasters are transforming cities in ways that foster egalitarian urbanism or reinforce capitalist urbanization. To address this question, I develop the notion of a resilience fix, returning to Harvey’s influential thesis on spatial fix that captures how capitalism overcomes its crises of overaccumulation by deepening its spread through the production of new spaces and the built environment. I combine this thesis with an interrogation of urban metabolism and the governance of urban life and spaces to show the recursive relations between resilience fixes and transformative resilience strategies. Focusing on a ten-year postdisaster development in Metro Manila, this study shows how resilience fixes act within and through political economy systems, land use planning, technology adoption, and risk management regimes to decenter those who experience the double violence of capitalist urbanization and disaster capitalism while naturalizing utopian development, citizen surveillance, and a class-based retreat from the city. By offering false solutions and translocating disasters, these fixes inextricably reproduced social inequalities that would stimulate resistance politics and counterhegemonic strategies aimed at partial transformation.

本文探讨了作为稳定的弹性和作为转型的弹性之间的理所当然的分离灾后。它考察了气候灾难后采取的战略是否正在以促进平等城市主义或加强资本主义城市化的方式改变城市。为了解决这个问题，我提出了弹性修复的概念，回到了哈维关于空间修复的有影响力的论文，该论文捕捉了资本主义如何通过新空间和建筑环境的生产加深其传播来克服其过度积累的危机。我将这篇论文与对城市新陈代谢以及城市生活和空间治理的探讨结合起来，以展示复原力修复与变革复原力策略之间的递归关系。本研究重点关注马尼拉大都会的十年灾后发展，展示了复原力修复措施如何在政治经济系统、土地使用规划、技术采用和风险管理制度，以分散那些经历资本主义城市化和灾难资本主义双重暴力的人，同时使乌托邦式发展、公民监督和基于阶级的城​​市撤退自然化。通过提供错误的解决方案和转移灾难，这些解决方案不可避免地再现了社会不平等，这些不平等将刺激抵抗政治和旨在部分转型的反霸权战略。