The edited volume Critical Explorations of Crisis: Politics, Precariousness, and Potentialities (Bristol University Press, 18 September 2025) offers an interdisciplinary approach to crisis studies. Edited by Helle Rydström, Mo Hamza, Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen, and Vanja Berggren, the book examines the intersections of socio-economic, political, climate, and health factors that shape crises globally.
Contributors explore diverse case studies, from refugee crises to gendered precariousness in industrial zones, providing critical insights into human vulnerability and resilience. This volume contributes to the emerging field of crisis studies, challenging traditional boundaries and offering new perspectives on crisis and transformation.
The full programme for the upcoming Symposium on Global South–Global North Developments: The Asymmetries of Polycrisis, Risks, and Resilience is now available. Organised by the Crisis Inequalities and Social Resilience (CISR) group, the International Development Group, and the Society for Critical Studies of Crisis (SCSC), this two-day event brings together scholars, practitioners, and activists to explore crises, resilience, and development from multiple perspectives.
Keynote addresses will be delivered by Vandana Desai (Royal Holloway, University of London), discussing Shared Forms of Breakdown: Global South Perspectives on Development and Polycrisis, and Jeremy Allouche (Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex), presenting on Development in Polycrisis Times. These sessions will offer critical insights into the challenges and strategies of development amid complex global crises.
CISR is pleased to announce an upcoming symposium exploring the complex interconnections between polycrisis, risks, and resilience from a Global South–Global North perspective. As multiple, co-existing crises—economic, environmental, political—reshape global inequalities, this symposium will critically examine how these asymmetries affect development and resilience-building efforts worldwide.
The event will bring together leading scholars to discuss key themes across five panels:
🔹 Panel 1: Global South Perspectives on Development and Polycrisis How do interconnected global crises deepen socio-economic inequalities between the Global North and South, disproportionately affecting specific communities and hindering sustainable development?
🔹 Panel 2: Social Resilience in Crisis Times Considered from the Global South What conditions support the development of social resilience to mitigate risks in times of polycrisis, and how can Global South experiences inform crisis responses and reframe development?
🔹 Panel 3: Sustainable Development, Gendered Crisis Inequalities, and Resilience How do gendered inequalities intersect with polycrisis to shape risks and resilience, and how can these insights drive more inclusive development initiatives for those facing precarity and marginalisation?
🔹 Panel 4: Politics of Miscommunication and Developments Across the Globe How do miscommunication and misinformation about crises obstruct dialogue and knowledge exchange between the Global North and South, potentially impeding resilience-building efforts? (Hui, Martin)
🔹 Panel 5: Developing Collaborative Strategies and Futures How can interdisciplinary and transnational research collaborations help develop frameworks that are responsive to the entanglements of development, polycrisis, risks, and resilience, contributing to the advancement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)?
This two-day symposium, scheduled for October 7-8, 2025.
📅 Save the date and join us in shaping new perspectives on crisis, resilience, and global development!
As a strong research area, CISR is committed to advancing interdisciplinary, high-impact research on crisis inequalities and social resilience. Building on our existing work, we will further establish a leading hub for cutting-edge scholarship, fostering collaborations across the Faculty and beyond. This will create a sustainable research environment that brings together scholars at various career stages to deepen understanding of how societies respond to crises.
Our research will continue to generate novel insights into the unequal capacities for resilience—examining how some groups carve out new possibilities in crisis, while others face socio-economic and political marginalisation. Ethical considerations will remain central, particularly in addressing disparities in access to resources, opportunities, and rights that shape resilience in times of upheaval.
In an era of polycrisis, CISR plays a crucial role in reinvigorating discussions around the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and their relevance to global resilience strategies. As crisis and resilience studies gain urgency both in Sweden and internationally, we will strengthen our engagement with policy institutions, funding bodies, and international research networks, ensuring that our work informs and shapes responses to contemporary global challenges.
CISR’s consolidation as a strong research area will provide a robust foundation for securing long-term funding, expanding interdisciplinary partnerships, and positioning the Faculty as a leader in crisis and resilience research. Our commitment to methodological innovation and cross-disciplinary dialogue will ensure continued national and international impact, supporting sustainable and forward-looking research initiatives.
CISR researchers actively contribute to international and interdisciplinary academic discussions by organising panels and presenting papers at leading conferences on crisis, resilience, and social transformation.
Panel Organisation and Moderation
Catia Gregoratti – Panel moderation, “Crisis, Resilience, and Care II”, Pollen 2024, Lund (June 10-14, 2024).
Sara Kauko & Helle Rydström – Conveners of a triple panel “Facing Precarity and Improvising Resilience in ‘Times of Crisis’”, Swedish Anthropological Association Annual Meeting (SANT), Uppsala University (April 24-26, 2024).
Simon Turner – Co-organizer of a double panel “Prepared to Improvise? Material Anticipatory Practices in the Face of Impending Catastrophe”, Swedish Anthropological Association Annual Meeting (SANT), Uppsala University (April 24-26, 2024).
Paper Presentations
Catia Gregoratti et al. – “Resilience: Why Should Feminists Care?”, 10th International Degrowth Conference, Pontevedra, Spain (June 18-21, 2024).
Nils Gustafsson & Huy Zhao – “‘Toxic, But in a Good Way’: H&M in Russia During the Ukraine War as seen Through Consumer Activism on TikTok”, NordMedia Conference, Bergen, Norway (August 16-18, 2023).
Sara Kauko – Multiple presentations on resilience and social cohesion in Argentina at:
XII Nordic Latin American Research Network Conference, Copenhagen (May 21-23, 2024).
Swedish Anthropological Association Annual Conference, Uppsala (April 23-25, 2024).
Nordic Workshop Series on Social and Cultural Cohesion, Gothenburg (January 25-26, 2024).
Finnish Anthropological Society Biennial Conference, Rovaniemi, Finland (March 21-23, 2023).
Swedish Anthropological Association Annual Conference, Stockholm (April 27-29, 2023).
Nordic Institute of Latin American Studies Open Lecture (April 26, 2023).
Helle Rydström – “Improvising Resilience: Crises of Welfare and Masculinized Class Precarity in Industrializing Vietnam”, Swedish Anthropological Association Annual Meeting (SANT), Uppsala University (April 24-26, 2024).
Simon Turner –
“Doomsday Prepping as Improvisation Through ‘Stuff’”, Swedish Anthropological Association Annual Meeting (SANT), Uppsala University (April 24-26, 2024).
“Precarious Care Across Migrant Generations in Tanzania”, American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada (November 14-18, 2023).
Marlene Wiggill – “A Strategic Communication Approach to Disaster Risk Reduction Communication to Enhance Immigrants’ and Refugees’ Resilience”, ECREA – 7th International Crisis Communication Conference, Gothenburg (October 5-7, 2023).
Discussant Roles
Simon Turner – Discussant, “Facing Precarity and Improvising Resilience in ‘Times of Crisis’”, Swedish Anthropological Association Annual Meeting (SANT), Uppsala University (April 24-26, 2024).
CISR actively engages in interdisciplinary collaborations, invited talks, and public exhibitions to advance research on crisis inequalities and social resilience.
Collaborative Research Networks
InterResilience: Interdisciplinary Resilience Mechanisms in Crisis (2022-2025) – A collaborative network funded by The Hamburg University and Lund University Fund. Learn more
Politics and Power of Resilience (POWERS) Network – A partnership with the University of Lapland, Uppsala University, and the University of Copenhagen exploring resilience from a political and power-based perspective. Learn more
Crisis and Resilience Talks
Helle Rydström – “Fathers Employed in Vietnam’s Heavy Industry: Class Precarity, Family Care, and Crises of Welfare”, ERC Workshop, Bielefeld University, Germany (March 26-28, 2024).
Helle Rydström – “Standing on the Ruins: The Temporalities and Modalities of Catastrophic Crisis”, Symposium, Hamburg, Germany (October 27-28, 2023).
Helle Rydström – “Crises Ethnographies: Social, Political, and Anthropological Considerations”, Visiting Polycrisis Workshop, IDS, Sussex University, UK (October 12-13, 2023).
Helle Rydström – “What is Social Resilience?”, ECREA Communication History Section Workshop, Lund, Sweden (August 23-25, 2023).
Public Exhibitions
“Being Well – Social Resilience in a Changing World” – A poster exhibition featuring work by Sara Kauko, Patric Nordbeck, Azher Hameed Qamar, Tove Lundberg, Mikael Linnell, Martin Lundqvist, Yunwhan Kim, and Teres Hjärpe at Lund City Hall during Lund Sustainability Week (April 17-22, 2023). Learn more
CISR researchers continue to contribute to global discussions on crisis inequalities, resilience, and social transformation through high-impact publications. Recent works include:
Banerjee, Soumi (2023). Performing Agency in Shrinking Spaces: Acting Beyond the Resilience–Resistance Binary, Social Inclusion, 11(2):147-158. https://doi.org/10.17645/si.v11i2.6446
Banerjee, Soumi (2025). Legitimacy under Scrutiny: Why Some Organisations Are More Vulnerable to Restriction than Others?, Voluntary Sector Review (published online ahead of print). https://doi.org/10.1332/20408056Y2025D000000035
Claeson, Olivia, Mikaela Rydén Ragnar, Agnes Åstrom, and Yunhwan Kim (2024). Swedish Women Reaching Post-Traumatic Growth after an Intimate Partner Violence Relationship: A Study of Formal Help and Growth after Trauma, Scandinavian Journal of Public Health. https://doi.org/10.1177/14034948231222366
Linnell, Mikael (2024). Samhällsviktig verksamhet. Klimatanpassning och risk i framtidsperspektiv, Myndigheten för Samhällsskydd och Beredskap. https://rib.msb.se/filer/pdf/30582.pdf
Linnell, Mikael (2023). Livet från den ljusa sidan: Sociologi och föreställningen om det radikalt annorlunda, Sociologisk Forskning, 60(3-4):327-51. https://doi.org/10.37062/sf.60.25403
Lundqvist, Martin (2024). A Gathering with Fire: Exploring the Audience Reception of Internet Memes about Belfast Riots, Media, Culture, & Society, 46(4):706-724.
Gusic, Ivan, and Martin Lundqvist (2023). “Meme-Ing” Peace in Northern Ireland: Exploring the Everyday Politics of Internet Memes in Belfast Riots, International Journal of Communication, 17.
Lundqvist, Martin (2023). Fear and Posting in Nepal: Countering Spectacles of Fear Through Everyday Social Media Practices, Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, 37(4): 507-521.
Nguyen Minh, Helle Rydström, and Jingyu Mao (2024). Introduction to Reconfiguring Labor and Welfare in the Global South: How The Social Question is Framed as Market Participation, Global Social Policy, 24(2):149-165. https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/GSP/current
Nguyen Minh, Jingyu Mao, and Helle Rydström (2024). Special Issue on “Reconfiguring Labor and Welfare in Emerging Economies of the Global South”, Global Social Policy, 24(2).
Qamar, Azher H. (2023). Social Dimensions of Resilience and Climate Change: A Rapid Review of Theoretical Approaches, Present Environment and Sustainable Development, 17(1):139-153.
Qamar, Azher H. (2023). Researching Social Resilience in the Context of Migrants’ Life Transition: A Qualitative Methodological Mosaic, Journal of the Higher School of Economics, 20(4):796-813. https://doi.org/10.17323/1813-8918-2023-4-796-813
Rydström, Helle, Mo Hamza, Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen, and Vanja Berggren (eds.) (In press). Crisis and Resilience: Politics, Precariousness, and Potentialities, Bristol University Press.
Rydström, Helle (2023). Gendering Morality and Providing a Feminized Ethics of Care: Welfare, Crises, and Tình cảm in Contemporary Vietnam, HAU, Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 13(3). https://doi.org/10.1086/728982
Rydström, Helle (2024). Introduction to Section on Gender and Private Life. In Global Encounters, Translocal Lifeworlds, eds. Nguyen Minh and Kirsten Endres, Yale University Southeast Asian Studies. https://pub.uni-bielefeld.de/record/2986812
Rydström, Helle (2023). Family, Gender, and New Constellations: Crises and Changing Configurations, Vietnam: Navigating a Rapidly Changing Economy, Society, and Political Order, eds. Dwight Perkins and Börje Ljunggren, Harvard University Press. https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674291331
Rydström, Helle (2023). Disrupting “A Man’s World”: Gender, Technology, and Class in Vietnam’s Global Heavy Industry, JRAI: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 29(1):163-182. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.13865
Skarp, Sara, Lea Fünfschilling, Mikael Klintman, and Mikael Linnell (2023). A Speculative Conversation on Climate Change and Sociology, Sociologisk Forskning, 60(3-4):401-10. https://doi.org/10.37062/sf.60.25402
Turner, Simon (2023). Social Media and Sounding Out in The Cryptopolitical Landscape of the Burundian Conflict, in Cryptopolitics: Exposure, Concealment, and Digital Media, eds. Victoria Bernal, Katrien Pype, and Daivi Rodima-Taylor, Berghan Books.
Zhao, Hui and Jesper Falkheimer (2024). Communication Inequality of Ethnic Groups in Public Health Crisis: State of the Art and Model of Community-Based Crisis Response, in Risk and Crisis Communication in Europe: Towards Integrating Theory and Practice in Unstable and Turbulent Times, eds. Diers-Lawson et al., Routledge.
The CISR research community continues to secure competitive funding to advance critical investigations into crisis inequalities and social resilience. Recent and ongoing grant applications include interdisciplinary and international collaborations:
InterResilience: Interdisciplinary Resilience Mechanisms in Crisis (2022-2025), funded through The Hamburg University and Lund University Fund. (Dienefelt, Thorén, Hjärpe, Rydström, and Zwar).
“Preppers for Security in Sweden” – Funded by Vetenskapsrådet (2023-2026). (Stern, Turner, Agius, Karlsson Franck, and Georgi).
Invitation to attend a workshop organized by Crisis Inequalities and Social Resilience (CISR), Funded by the Faculty of Social Sciences, Lund University, under the Strong Research Area Initiative
We are excited to announce a workshop on Crisis Inequalities and Social Resilience (CISR), designed to provide participants with a comprehensive understanding of the basics and key concepts in this field. We believe this workshop will be instrumental in fostering collaboration, sharing knowledge, and enhancing skills in crisis and social resilience research.
This workshop, therefore, invites participants to explore the analytical potential of the two complex and multifaceted concepts, crisis and (social) resilience. The participants are encouraged to consider the following questions: “what does it mean to live in times of crisis?”, “for whom is a crisis a crisis and why?”, and “what does it mean to be resilient in the face of diverse crises across different sociocultural contexts?” In the workshop, we specifically focus on various forms of resilience to capture how people deal with precarity and hardship in specific contexts framed by crisis to mitigate, cope with, and maybe even identify new potentialities.
Format: The workshop will consist of four sessions, consisting of 4-5 presenters, including a keynote presentation, and interactive discussions.
Purpose: The primary goal of this workshop is to critically study ‘crisis’ and ‘resilience’ conceptually, empirically, and methodologically and how such notions are embedded in socioeconomic and political realities. It aims to enhance participants’ understanding of key concepts, provide hands-on experience, and foster networking and interdisciplinary collaboration.
Sessions with Keynote Speakers:
Conceptualizing Crisis Inequalities and Social Resilience
Social Resilience and Migration
Gender and Intersectionality
Digital Culture and Meme “Track”
Date and Time: May 28-29, 2024.
Workshop Registration: Please ensure you complete your registration before May 1st, 2024, using the following link: https://forms.gle/vgHFi2fABBghqPtR8
Venue:May 28 School of Social Work, Socialhögskolan, Sh108; May 29 Eden, Room 236
Related to the Resilience Initiative, Faculty of Social Sciences, Lund University.
Current activities
Tuesday meetings: Crisis Inequalities and Social Resilience (CISR) Network
Meetings are held every second Tuesday during the spring of 2024. In these meetings, we identify innovative and critical approaches to social resilience as intersected with crisis inequalities. Everybody is welcome! The next meeting will be held on January 23, 15.15-16.45.
Interdisciplinary Resilience Mechanisms in Crisis: Nov 16, 2023 as well as an upcoming symposium in Hamburg, Germany, in June 2024. Collaboration funded by the ‘Lund-Hamburg Grant’, which includes scholars from the social sciences, law, psychology, and philosophy at the University of Hamburg and Lund University.
Thematic workshop: Crisis Inequalities and Social Resilience
28-29 May 2024 The aim of the workshop is to critically examine conceptualizations of crisis (including ‘polycrisis’) and social resilience and how they may entangle in various social worlds.
Nils Gustafsson, Lund University: Resilience Initiative at Faculty of Social Sciences, Lund University.
Helle Rydstrom, Lund University: “InterResilience -Interdisciplinary Resilience Mechanisms in Crisis”.
Chair: Henrik Thorén
09.30-10.30: Julian Reid, University of Lapland: Is an Interdisciplinary Synthesis of Resilience Possible?
(45 mins presentation + 15 minutes Q&A)
10.30-10.45: Coffee break
Chair: Anne Dienelt
10.45-11.45: Samantha Copeland, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands: Scales, relations and components: Interdisciplinary Resilience as Fugue
(45 mins presentation + 15 minutes Q&A)
11.45-13.00: Lunch
Chair: Larissa Zwar
13.00-13.20: Azher Hameed Qamar, Lund University: Concept of social resilience as a social construct and its interdisciplinary connections
13.25-13.45: Sara Kauko, Lund University: Cultural imaginaries of social resilience: Reflections from Argentina.
13.50-14.10: Martin Lundqvist, Lund University: Memetic social resilience? Exploring memes about political violence in present-day Belfast, Northern Irelan
14.15-14.45: Coffee break
Chair: Helle Rydstrom
14.45-15.05: Henrik Thorén, Lund University: Values in Resilience Research
15.10-15.30: Anne Dienelt, University of Hamburg: Resilience and the Legal Discipline
15.35-15.55: Larissa Zwar, University of Hamburg: Resilience in the care context of (older) adults
16.00.-16.20: Soumi Banerjee, Lund University: Performing Agency in Shrinking Spaces: Acting Beyond the Resilience–Resistance Binary
16.20-16.40: Mine Islar, Lund University: Himalayan glacier change and society responses.
16.40-17.00: Break
17.00-17.30: Concluding discussion
In preparation for this session, please consider what themes, issues, and questions need to be further or differently studied to advance the field of resilience studies, as related to various crises. The session is intended to allow for reflections on the possibility of collecting contributions to a Special Issue on Resilience.
18.00: Dinner: Before November 13, participants confirm if they will join the dinner.
Under the Lifelong Learning (EduLab) theme, an interdisciplinary course on Crisis will be held (online) in the spring of 2024. The course aims at bridging between academia and the ambient society.
Course Content:
The course provides an insight into how crises disrupt lives, livelihoods, and societies, and the ways in which they might be twisted for political purposes. Focusing on thesocio-economic inequalities imbued in crises, the course analyses how crises impact on the human rights of various social groups as related to the Sustainable Development Goals (Agenda 2030). The course sheds light on the building of social resilience through crisis mitigation and coping strategies. Through critical dialogue with crisis scholarship, the course introduces analytical tools for the examination of crisis powers, politics, precariousness, and potentialities. The course offers insights into how crisis experiences, realities, and policies are configured in local and global contexts due to factors such as gender, age, sexuality, ethnicity, and class. As disciplinary crisis approaches eschew the multi-dimensional complexities and dynamics of crisis, the course is interdisciplinary and thus includes various disciplinary understandings of crisis. In doing so, the course provides insight into different theoretical, empirical, and methodological aspects of crisis. Participants are introduced to themes such as the interdisciplinary character of crisis, crisis and climate, crisis and labour, crisis and technology, crisis and care, and crisis and conflict zones.
Course Title: GNVED1
Crisis – Critical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 6 credits (Department of Gender Studies) Kris- Kritiska och tvärvetenskapliga perspektiv, 6 högskolepoäng (Genusvetenskapliga institutionen) Second Cycle / Avancerad nivå.
Information:
For further details, please contact Lund University EduLab project leader or the course administration at the Department of Gender Studies, which hosts the course.
Symposium on Running into Ruin with Eyes Wide Open: Can Slow-motion Crises be Prevented from Turning into Catastrophes?, University of Hamburg, October 27-28, 2023.
Workshop on Revisiting Polycrisis, International Development Studies, Sussex, UK, October 12-13, 2023.
The Crisis Inequalities and Social Resilience (CISR) area, which is a result of collaboration between the Social Resilience Group and the Society for Critical Studies of Crisis (SCSC), will carry out a series of meetings and activities on the Lund University campus during the fall of 2023.
Schedule:
September 12th: Sh238 (Socialhogskolan conference room on the 2nd floor)
September 26th: Sh238 (Socialhogskolan conference room on the 2nd floor)
October 10th: Sh238 (Socialhogskolan conference room on the 2nd floor)
October 24th: Sh238 (Socialhogskolan conference room on the 2nd floor)
November 7th: M102 (Hus M, Department of Gender Studies)
November 28th: Sh238 (Socialhogskolan conference room on the 2nd floor)
December 19th: Sh238 (Socialhogskolan conference room on the 2nd floor)
The scheduled time for each meeting is from 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM.
Symposium:
November 16-17:InterResilience Symposium. Funded collaboration between Hamburg University, Germany and Lund University. For more information: INTERRESILIENCE : International : Universität Hamburg (uni-hamburg.de) The Symposium will be held in Biskopshuset in Lund and the School of Social Work, Lund University.
For further details, please contact coordinators Soumi Banerjee at: soumi.banerjee@soch.lu.se or Helle Rydström at: helle.rydstrom@genus.lu.se
A new Lund University Social Sciences Research Area has obtained funding from the Faculty of Social Sciences, Lund University to consolidate as a strong research area:
On Crisis Inequalities and Social Resilience (CISR):
This proposed strong research area in Crisis Inequalities and Social Resilience (CISR) arises from collaboration organically developed over time between the Initiative for Research on Social Resilience and the Society for Critical Studies of Crisis (SCSC), Faculty of Social Sciences at Lund University. The collaboration has provided important research thanks to a series of international webinars; conceptual and methodological workshops; and peer-reviewed publications. Our strong research area consolidates a range of senior and early career researchers, who through their combined expertise apply a critical lens for identifying and analyzing the entanglements between social resilience, crisis, and socio-economic inequalities. In this proposed strong research area, we respond to an ethical call for critique of local and global inequities, as enmeshed with uneven distribution of resources, unequal opportunities, and skewed rights in crisis circumstances and thereby also engage with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). CISR connects to research conducted at the various departments under the Faculty of Social Sciences and, therefore, holds promise of long-lasting broad scholarly support, excellence in both breadth and depth, and high-level scientific and societal impact. The CISR activities are open (see separate post).
Project Coordinator:
Helle Rydström, Professor, Department of Gender Studies, Lund University.
Co-coordinators:
Annette Hill, Professor, Department of Communication and Media, Lund University,
Simon Turner, Professor, Division of Social Anthropology, Department of Sociology, Lund University.
Lund University Faculty of Social Sciences CISR application involved scholars:
Carlo Nicoli Aldini, Ph.D. Candidate, Sociology of Law.
Soumi Banerjee, Ph.D. Candidate, School of Social Work.
Martina A. Caretta, Senior Lecturer, Department of Cultural and Economic Geography.
Catia Gregoratti, Senior Lecturer, Department of Political Science.
Nils Gustafsson, Senior Lecturer, Department of Strategic Communication.
David Harnesk, Post-Doc. & Senior Lecturer, LUCSUS.
Teres Hjärpe, Senior Lecturer, School of Social Work, Lund University.
Mine Islar, Associate Professor, LUCSUS.
Sara Kauko, Post-Doc. Department of Gender Studies.
Yunhwan Kim, Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychology.
Mikael Linnell, Post-Doc. & Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology.
Martin Lundqvist, Post-Doc., Department of Communication and Media.
Tove Lundberg, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology.
Chris Mathieu, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology.
Claudia Di Matteo, Ph.D. Candidate, School of Social Work.
Andreas Mattsson, Researcher, Department of Communication and Media.
Patric Nordbeck, Post-Doc., Department of Psychology.
Azher Hameed Qamar, Post-Doc., School of Social Work.
Juan Antonio Samper, Ph.D. Candidate, LUCSUS.
Priscilla Solano, Senior Lecturer, Department of Gender Studies.
Marlene Wiggill, Associate Professor, Department of Strategic Communication.
Hui Zhao, Post-Doc., Department of Strategic Communication.
At this hybrid symposium, editors, and authors of the Global Discourse Special Issue: “Critical Explorations of Crisis: Politics, Precariousness, and Potentialities”, will present and discuss their contributions. Apart from the speakers in the sessions, the symposium will be opened and closed by Editor in Chief Matthew Johnson, and editors Helle Rydstrom and Mo Hamza from Lund university. No RSVP needed. Welcome!
PROGRAM:
9.30: Welcome
Helle Rydstrom, Society for Critical Studies of Crisis & Teres Hjärpe, Social Resilience Group.
9.45: Introduction to Special Issue
Global Discourse Editor-in-Chief Matthew Johnson.
10-11.30: Session 1 Chair: Priscilla Solano. Moderator: Simon Turner.
Didier Fassin: “Preface: Crisis as Experience and Politics”.
Sylvia Walby: “Crisis and Society: Developing the Theory of Crisis in the Context of Covid”.
Heidi Gottfried: “Crisis and Change: The Politics of Potentialities (Reply to Walby)”.
Ravinder Kaur: “Crisis Futures: Covid-19 and the Speculative Turning Point of History”.
Society for Critical Studies of Crisis (SCSC) is the culmination of more than two years of inter-disciplinary work at Lund University supported by the Pufendorf Institute through an Advanced Study Group and a CRISIS Theme. These initiatives were a response to urgent calls for political action and ethical calls for more inclusive and efficient models for crisis prevention, mitigation, and restoration.
The SCSC is a non-profit Lund University-based association that was launched at the Symposium on Critical Explorations of Crisis: Politics, Precariousness, and Potentialities in 2019. It provides a platform for members’ engagement, both individuals and institutions with an interest in critical crisis studies. Membership in the SCSC is free. An annual general meeting will be held.
Aim
The SCSC understands crisis as the result of complex dynamics and interactions rather than a ‘siloed’ event. From an inter- and multidisciplinary perspective, the SCSC seeks to critically examine the interconnectedness between various types of crises, the economic, political, and ideological aspects of a crisis, how these engage to configure politics, realities, and experiences of a crisis, the socially differentiated impacts of a crisis, and its unequal ramifications in particular contexts for specific social groups.
Liability
Swedish legislation and the Lund University policy and ethical regulations set the frame for the SCSC.
Photo: Mo Hamza Art: Antony Gormley’s Event Horizon in London, 2007.
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