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@article{197379,
        author = {Kamini Dhruw and Sajal Thakur},
        title = {Rethinking Resilience: Affect, Gender, and Ecology in Forager Life},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2026},
        volume = {12},
        number = {11},
        pages = {7608-7610},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=197379},
        abstract = {This study explores the interaction of female subjectivity, emotional experience, and emotional resilience through the lens of the forager. Moving beyond standard patriarchal and neoliberal interpretations of resilience as "emotional healing" or "detachment," this study suggests a feminist reconfiguration of strength based on affective depth. By examining "emotiosevere" subjectivity, a way of being marked by high emotional intensity, continuous care work, and environmental precocity, the study contends that the forager's emotional existence serves as an epistemic tool rather than a liability.
The study examines forager agency through a multidisciplinary lens that includes affect theory, ecofeminism, and anthropological subsistence models. The results indicate that emotional resilience in this context is cyclical, collective, and environmental.},
        keywords = {Emotional Resilience, Forager Identity, Affective Labour, Ecofeminism, Emotional Agency, Feminist Theory.},
        month = {April},
        }