Society for Critical Studies of Crisis (SCSC)

In fall 2022, the SCSC will continue the webinar series on Crisis and Social Resilience. 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. 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? 

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. In 2 webinars in fall 2022 Swedish and international scholars will discuss crisis and social resilience in relation to the topics of Conflict and Law and Justice.

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

WEBINAR 2022:5 Conflict, Crisis, Social Resilience

Oct 27, 15.15-17.00

Speakers:

Erin McCandless, Scholar and Policy Advisor in Peacebuilding and Development. Research Associate in the Politics Department the University of Witwatersrand South Africa and the Institute for Development and Sustainability (IDOS) in Bonn, Germany.

Jesper Bjarnesen, Anthropologist and Senior Researcher at the Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala university, Sweden.

Sarah Anne Rennick, Political Scientist and Researcher at the Center for Advanced Middle East Studies, Lund university, Sweden.

Mo Hamza, Professor at the Division of Risk Management and Societal Safety, Lund university, Sweden. 

Chair:

Helle Rydström, Professor at the department for Gender Studies, Lund university.

WEBINAR 2022:6 Law, Crisis, Social Resilience

December 15, 14.14-16.00

Speakers:

Vladislava Stoyanova, Senior Lecturer, Researcher and Coordinator for the Migration Law Research Network, Faculty of Law, Lund university,

Anne Dienelt, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute for International Affairs, Hamburg University.

Miia Halme-Tuomisaari, Legal Anthropologist and Senior Lecturer in Human Rights Studies, Lund university.

Chair:

Carlo Nicoli Aldini, Doctoral Student at the Department of Sociology of Law, Lund university.

Oct 27, 15.15-17.00

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

Abstract: What does ongoing or recent conflict mean to the processes of social resilience? What are the compounded risks resulting from climate change and contributing to conflict? How far can the concept of crisis take us in order to understand the hardships of violent urban settlements? And how do youth navigate within peacebuilding paradigms in post-conflict areas? Welcome to discuss with scholars in Peacebuilding and Governance, Risk- and Management Studies, Anthropology, and Political Science. The webinar will be moderated by professor Helle Rydström from the department for Gender Studies.

Speakers:

Erin McCandless, Scholar and Policy Advisor in Peacebuilding and Development. Research Associate in the Politics Department the University of Witwatersrand South Africa and the Institute for Development and Sustainability (IDOS) in Bonn, Germany.

Speaking on: Forging resilient social contracts in transition contexts

Jesper Bjarnesen, Anthropologist and Senior Researcher at the Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala university, Sweden.

Speaking on: Where is the crisis? The politics of urban displacement and emplacement

Sarah Anne Rennick, Political Scientist and Researcher at the Center for Advanced Middle East Studies, Lund university. 

Speaking on: Reinventing Youthhood: Agency and New Social Imaginaries of Being Young in Post-ISIS Syria and Iraq

Mo Hamza,  Professor at the Division of Risk Management and Societal Safety, Lund university, Sweden; and The Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Sweden.

Speaking on: Compounded Risks in Climate Change, Fragility and Conflict

Chair:

Helle Rydström, Professor at the Department for Gender Studies, Lund university.

December 15, 14.14-16.00

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

Abstract:

Social resilience and the practice of law and human rights will be the theme for this webinar. Scholars in Law, Sociology of Law and Human Rights’ Studies will present research on how resilience is translated into the legal discipline and acted upon in questions of climate change, migration, pandemics and human rights. Welcome to join the discussions!

Speakers:

Vladislava Stoyanova, Senior Lecturer, Researcher and Coordinator for the Migration Law Research Network, Faculty of Law, Lund university.

Presenting on: Inherent Instability or Tipping of the Balance: Populism, Immigration and Legal Resilience in Europe

Anne Dienelt, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute for International Affairs, Hamburg University.

Presenting on: Translating Resilience into the Legal Discipline at national, comparative and international levels  

Miia Halme-Tuomisaari, Legal Anthropologist and Senior Lecturer in Human Rights Studies, Lund university.

Presenting on: The Resilience of Human Rights in a World of Ongoing Crisis

Chair:

Carlo Nicoli Aldini, Doctoral Student at the Department of Sociology of Law, Lund university.

During spring of 2022, the SCSC will continue focusing 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. 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?

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. During four webinars in spring 2022 Swedish and international scholars will discuss crisis and social resilience in relation to the topics of Climate, Gender, Work, Communication

Please click on each webinar’s link (available within short) to read the abstract and attend on Zoom. 

WEBINAR 2022:1 (the sixth social resilience webinar)

Climate, Crisis, Social Resilience

March 10, 14.15-16.00

Speakers:

Helen Avery, researcher at the Centre for Environmental and Climate Science and the Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies, Lund university, Sweden.

Cristobal Diaz Martinez, Phd in Planning Studies and member of research group Cities, Governance and Planning, UCL- University College London, UK.

Lala Peñaranda, Trade Unions for Energy Democracy, (TUED), US.

Juan Antonio Samper, Doctoral Student at Lund University Center for Sustainability Studies (LUCSUS), Sweden. 

Chair:

Patric Nordbeck, Postdoctoral Researcher at the department for Psychology, Lund university, Sweden.

WEBINAR 2022: 2 (the seventh social resilience webinar)

Gender, Crisis, Social Resilience

March 24, 14.14-16.00

Speakers:

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

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

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

Chair:

Helle Rydström, Professor at the department for Gender Studies, Lund university.

WEBINAR 2022: 3 (the eighth social resilience webinar)

Work, Crisis, Social Resilience

April 28, 14.15-15.00

Speakers:

Rebecca Prentice, Reader in Anthropology and International Development, University of Sussex.

Matthijs Bal, Professor of Responsible Management, Lincoln International Business School, Lincoln university.

Christopher Mathieu, Associate professor in Organisational and Labour Sociology, Lund university.

Angie Ngọc Trần, Professor, Political Economy, California State University

Chair:

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

WEBINAR 2022:4 (the ninth social resilience webinar)

Communication, Crisis, Social Resilience

May 19, 12.30-14.30

Speakers:

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

Annette Hill, Professor and Chair of Media and Communication, Lund university, SWE

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

Chair:

Liv Gaborit, Postdoctoral Researcher in Social Anthropology, Lund university.