<![CDATA[Cultural resilience is the capacity of individuals, families, and communities to maintain, adapt, and reconstruct cultural identity, knowledge, practices, and social relationships in response to disruption and social change. This systematic literature review aims to map the communication processes through which cultural resources are mobilised to construct, maintain, negotiate, and transform resilience. Scopus-indexed journal articles published from 2012 to 2025 were identified and screened, and study selection followed PRISMA 2020. Of 195 candidate records assessed, 35 empirical articles met the inclusion criteria and were synthesised thematically. Qualitative designs dominated (27 studies; 77.1%), followed by quantitative (5; 14.3%) and mixed methods (3; 8.6%). Four thematic clusters emerged: disaster, climate, risk, and crisis communication (12); migration, intercultural, language, and identity processes (9); family, relational, and health resilience (8); and cultural heritage, narrative, and community development (6). Resilience was communicatively enacted through participatory dialogue, family interaction, communication networks, storytelling, multilingual practices, culturally responsive messaging, symbolic communication, and digital media, whereas explicit communication theory was applied in only four studies. The review concludes that communication is constitutive of cultural resilience rather than a supporting channel and recommends cross-cultural testing of communication-resilience processes, research on message design, and more longitudinal, comparative, and mixed-methods studies.]]>
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