Society for Critical Studies of Crisis (SCSC)

Climate, Crisis, Social Resilience

March 10, 14.14-16.00

Link: https://lu-se.zoom.us/j/69020345388?pwd=M2pCczFFbE5oa0N6NlpyVmpNV2Y1UT09

Abstract

With insights from projects in South America and the Middle East, this seminar will explore the resilience of communities and workers in relation to environmental exploitation and climate crisis. Postdoctoral researcher Patric Nordbeck from the department of Psychology will moderate the webinar.

Speakers:

Helen Avery, researcher at the Centre for Environmental and Climate Science and the Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies, Lund university, Sweden. On: Sustainability transitions in the Middle East; strategies for environmentally and socially sustainable society building.

Cristobal Diaz Martinez, Phd in Planning Studies and member of research group Cities, Governance and Planning, UCL, UK. On: Housing policies, self-built settlements and community resilience after local disasters in Latin American capitalist periphery.

Lala Peñaranda, Trade Unions for Energy Democracy, (TUED), United States. On: Workers’ responses to renewable companies and overnight exit of fossil mining companies in still coal-reliant communities.

Juan Antonio Samper, Doctoral Student at Lund University Center for Sustainability Studies (LUCSUS). On: The defense of the territory as a form of resilience?

Chair: Patric Nordbeck, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department for Psychology, Lund university, Sweden.

Gender, Crisis, Social Resilience

March 24, 14.15-16.00

Link: https://lu-se.zoom.us/j/69020345388?pwd=M2pCczFFbE5oa0N6NlpyVmpNV2Y1UT09

Speakers:

Cristian Norocel, Associate Senior Lecturer at the department for Gender Studies, Lund university.

Presenting on: Far Right Masculinities of Crises: Transnational Forms of Undermining Democratic Resilience.

Sara Kauko, Postdoctoral researcher at the department for Gender Studies, Lund University. 

Presenting on: “Business always but family first”: women’s entrepreneurialism, crisis, and resilience processes in Argentina.

Claudia Di Matteo, Doctoral Student at the School of Social Work, Lund university.

Presenting on: Social resilience of women’s organisations working with migrants in Sweden and Italy.

Work, Crisis, Social Resilience

April 28, 14.30-16.30

Link: https://lu-se.zoom.us/j/69020345388?pwd=M2pCczFFbE5oa0N6NlpyVmpNV2Y1UT09

Welcome to a webinar where four researchers in Anthropology, Labour Sociology, Responsible Management and Political Economy will analyse dimensions of social resilience in relation to labour and workplace crises. Teres Hjärpe, researcher at the School of Social Work, Lund university, will moderate the webinar.

Speakers:

Rebecca Prentice, Dr. and Reader in Anthropology and International Development, School of Global Studies, University of Sussex, GB. Presenting on: Labour Precarity, the Crisis of Capitalism, and the Uses of Social Protection in Bangladesh.

Matthijs Bal, Professor of Responsible Management, Lincoln International Business School, Lincoln university. Presenting on: A Workplace Dignity Perspective on Resilience.

Christopher Mathieu, Associate Professor of Organisational and Labour Sociology at the Department for Sociology, Lund university. Presenting on: Beyond resilience and the individual employee.

Angie Ngọc Trần, Professor, Political Economy, California State University US. Presenting on: Coping with Precarities: Vietnamese Women Domestic Workers in Saudi Arabia during Covid-19.

Chair:

Teres Hjärpe, Dr. in Social Work and coordinator for social resilience research, Lund university.

Communication, Crisis, Social Resilience

May 19, 12.30-14.30

Link: https://lu-se.zoom.us/j/69020345388?pwd=M2pCczFFbE5oa0N6NlpyVmpNV2Y1UT09

Speakers:

Dewald van Niekerk, Professor and Head of the African Centre for Disaster Studies, at North West University, SA.

On: Resilience in complex adaptive systems.

Marlene Wiggill, Associate professor in Strategic Communication, Lund university.

On: Enhancing social resilience of immigrants and refugees: a strategic disaster risk reduction communication perspective.

Annett Hill, Professor and Chair of Media and Communication, Lund university.

On: Documentary imaginary: Production and audience research of The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence

Chair:

Liv Gaborit, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Sociology/Anthropology, Lund university, Sweden.

During the fall of 2021, the SCSC will focus on social resilience in crisis times. The webinar series is the result of a collaboration between the SCSC and the Social Resilience Theme launched by the Faculty of Social Sciences at Lund University. The Social Resilience Theme is devoted to stimulating critical cross- and interdisciplinary research on resilience, theoretically, methodologically, and empirically. Social resilience and crises tend to be intimately intertwined with one another and with this webinar series, we welcome various audiences to participate in examining social resilience in crisis times as shaped in various contexts.

Social resilience has been understood as the “ability of groups or communities to cope with external stresses and disturbances as a result of social, political and environmental change” (Adger 2000). The webinar series critically considers this approach as an entry to advance social sustainability research. The series thus sheds light on the ways in which a social science perspective on resilience distinguishes itself from other disciplinary understandings. That is, when is resilience ‘social’ and how do various disciplines render the notion meaningful? Additional webinar questions concern: What are the challenges and pitfalls in using resilience as an analytical concept in social science research? How to critically study social resilience as a concept and as a practice? And how can a social resilience perspective be sophisticated theoretically and developed methodologically for empirical inquiries on the ground?

These questions and many others will be explored and debated by Swedish and international scholars in 5 webinars during the fall. With the series, we wish to promote the development of critical scholarship and establish an interdisciplinary network of scholars interested in pursuing research on social resilience in crisis times.

Please click on each webinar’s link to read the abstract and attend on Zoom. 

WEBINAR 1: Thinking about social resilience from a social science perspective in crisis times

Sept 9th, 14.15-16.30.

Speakers: Katrina Brown, Professor Emerita of Social Sciences, Univ. of Exeter, UK. 

Dieunedort Wandji, Dr. of Politics and International Development, Univ. of Portsmouth, UK.

Michael Ungar, Professor of Social Work and director of Resilience Research Center, Dalhousie University, CAN. Chair:

Helle Rydstrom, Professor at the Department for Gender Studies and President of the Society for Critical Studies of Crisis, Lund university.

WEBINAR 2: Social Resilience, Neoliberalism, and Socioeconomic Crises

Sept 30th, 15.15-17.00.

Panelists: Roberto Barrios, Professor of Anthropology, University of New Orleans, US. Paz Martín, Professor of Sociology, Complutense University of Madrid, SPAIN. Julian Reid, Professor of International Relations, Univ. of Lapland, FIN. Chair: Sara Kauko, Posdoctoral researcher, Dep. of gender studies, Lund Univ. 

WEBINAR 3: Social Resilience and Migration

Nov 4th, 15.15-17.00.

Speakers:

Philomena Okeke-Ihejirika, Professor of Women and Gender Studies, University of Alberta, CAN.

Ibrahim Kira, Professor of Health and Human Services, Director of the Center for Cumulative Trauma Studies, Georgia, US.

Torun Elsrud, Associate Professor of Sociology, Linnaeus Univ. SWE.

Azher Hameed Qamar, Postdoctoral researcher, School of Social Work, Lund Univ. SWE.

WEBINAR 4: Dynamic and systems perspectives of resilience in context

Dec 9th, 14.15-16.00.

Speakers: Yannick Hill, Doctor of Psychology, Univ. of Heidelberg, GE. Sahra Svensson-Höglund, Doctoral student of Circular Economy, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ., US. Valéria Andrade Pinto, Doctoral student of Psychology, Univ. of Cincinnati, US. Chair: Patric Nordbeck , Postdoctoral researcher, Dep. of Psychology, Lund Univ. SWE.

WEBINAR 5: Social Resilience beyond the West

Jan 27, 15.15-17.00.

Speakers: Liv Gaborit, Postdoctoral researcher, Dep. of Sociology/Div. of Anthropology, Lund Univ. SWE. Martin Andersson, Associate professor at the Department of Economic History, Lund university. Rashid Ahmed, Professor in Psychology, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa Billy Jones, Doctoral student in Ethnology, Lund Univ, SWE.