Abstract
ABSTRACT Given intensified calls to attend to mental health in academia, we sought to understand how graduate students in the communication discipline anticipate, respond to, and resist institutional stressors via their resilience processes. Drawing on interviews with 50 graduate students, we examined how graduate students’ resilience communication processes enacted adaptive-transformative possibilities for resistance across micro, meso, and macro organizational levels in higher education. Our findings show how participants’ resilience processes, in response to co-occurring stressors of academic norms, institutional restraints, and experiences of marginalization, aligned with specific modes of resistance (viz., individual infrapolitics, insubordination, collective infrapolitics, insurrection). Ultimately, we extend theorizing on resilience to illuminate its intersections with resistance and offer practical interventions to build both individual and collective resilience among graduate students in higher education.
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