Southeast Asia is a fertile area in which to examine the question of how societies express their resilience, this particularly in this post-pandemic context combining with worldwide economic restructuration. The notion of resilience itself invites critical inquiries from many disciplinary perspectives. How is resilience activated in Southeast Asian societies and cultures? How do historical legacies such as colonialism, communist revolutions, nationalist wars, and authoritarian regimes affect resilience, in the past as much as in the contemporary world? How do social…