Resilience as Justice * Wetlands, Urban Power, and Belgrade’s Environmental Future Kojanić’s article reframes resilience not as a neutral technocratic formula imposed by states, planners, or development agencies, but as a politically mobile concept that can be appropriated by citizens, scholars, and environmental activists in struggles over urban futures. Focusing on flood risk and wetland protection in Belgrade, Serbia, the article examines how grassroots organisation Swamplandia contests “investors’ urbanism”, a model of development that privileges profit, construction, and deregulation over ecological integrity and public welfare. Through ethnographic attention to the proposed “Belgrade Danube Park”, Kojanić shows that resilience becomes meaningful when linked to green infrastructure, biodiversity, climate adaptation, flood mitigation, and socio-environmental justice. The article’s central case demonstrates that wetlands are not passive landscapes awaiting development, but living systems that absorb excess water, filter pollution, sustain species, and provide public space for communities neglected by urban policy. While critical social science often condemns resilience discourse for shifting responsibility onto vulnerable populations, Kojanić offers a more nuanced account: when mobilised from below, resilience can repoliticise planning and expose the unequal distribution of environmental harm. The collaboration between Swamplandia and architecture students is especially significant because it transforms academic vocabulary into civic strategy, converting terms such as “ecosystem services” and “green-blue corridors” into arguments for collective protection. The article therefore concludes that resilience is not inherently neoliberal or depoliticising; its meaning depends on who uses it, for what purpose, and within which terrain of power. In Belgrade, resilience becomes a language through which marginal urban actors defend wetlands, challenge speculative development, and imagine a city organised around ecological care rather than extraction.