Society for Critical Studies of Crisis (SCSC)

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.

Social resilience beyond the west

January 27, 15.15-17.00

Access on zoomlink: https://lu-se.zoom.us/j/69020345388?pwd=M2pCczFFbE5oa0N6NlpyVmpNV2Y1UT09

Meeting ID: 690 2034 5388, Password: 316223

At this seminar, assumptions about resilience and crisis in western research will be discussed and challenged. Contributions to this discussion will come from ongoing projects on Myanmar, Kenya, South Africa and more.

Speakers:

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

On: Resilience of the Resistance Movement in Myanmar

William Jones, Phd-candidate in Ethnology, Lund university.

On: Refining Resilience Discourses in International Development

Rashid Ahmed, Professor in Psychology, University of the Western Cape, South Africa.

On: Overcoming or transforming adversity?: Resilience in the South African context

Martin Andersson, Associate Professor, Department of Economic History, Lund university, Sweden.

On: Resilience to economic shrinking in the developing world

Dynamic and systems perspectives of resilience in context

Dec, 9th 14.15-16.00

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Meeting ID: 690 2034 5388, Password: 316223

How can we conceptualize social resilience under a relational, process ontology and epistemology? What are the benefits and potential consequences of doing so from a dynamic systems perspective? What does research look like from a such a perspective? How is a systems perspective of resilience applied to real world phenomena? In this seminar, three researchers from different fields who will present their research on these topics.

Speakers:  

Yannick Hill, Doctor of Psychology, Univ. of Heidelberg, GE.  

Valéria Andrade Pinto, Doctoral student of Psychology, Univ. of Cincinnati, US.  

Sahra Svensson-Höglund, Doctoral student of Circular Economy, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ., US.  

Chair:

Patric Nordbeck , Postdoctoral researcher, Dep. of Psychology, Lund Univ. SWE.

Thinking about social resilience from a social science perspective in crisis times

Date and time: Sept 9 14.15-16.30

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Meeting ID: 690 2034 5388, Password: 316223

For this opening seminar, we have invited researchers experienced in the study of resilience to reflect upon resilience as a concept; its advantages and challenges. The seminar thus asks: What is social resilience and what is not social resilience? What makes resilience social? And how can resilience be understood from a social science perspective? These questions and many others will be discussed at the seminar and related to various research fields including Environmental Social Sciences, Development Studies, and Social Work.

Speakers: 

Katrina Brown, Professor Emerita of Social Sciences, University of Exeter, UK. On experiences from interdisciplinary research on sustainability and environmental change, development, vulnerability and resilience.

Dieunedort Wandji, Dr. and research officer in Politics and International Development, University of Portsmouth, UK. On the development of vernacular resilience and bottom-up approaches to resilience in studies in Sub-Saharan Africa. 

Michael Ungar, Professor in Social Work and director of Resilience Research Center, Dalhousie University; CA. On researching resilience of marginalised children and families experiencing mental health challenges, community resilience in refugee and immigrant youth populations and populations experiencing violent extremism.

Chair:

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

Social Resilience, Neoliberalism, and Socioeconomic Crises

Sept 30th, 15.15-17.00 

Access on zoomlink: https://lu-se.zoom.us/j/69020345388?pwd=M2pCczFFbE5oa0N6NlpyVmpNV2Y1UT09

Meeting ID: 690 2034 5388, Password: 316223

What kind of a lens does neoliberalism offer for examining the relationship between social resilience and sociopolitical/environmental/economic crises? What does it mean to be resilient in the face of a crisis and how does the neoliberal discourse shape the way we construct our understandings of resilience, adversity, and vulnerability? This seminar offers an interdisciplinary exploration of these questions by three established scholars.

Speakers:

Roberto Barrios, Professor of Anthropology, University of New Orleans, US. On Revelations and Epistemic Intensification: Resilience, Crisis, and Change in Disaster Anthropology

Julian Reid, Professor of International Relations, University of Lapland, FIN. On Arctic Resilience 

Paz Martín, Professor of Sociology, Complutense University of Madrid, SPAIN. On “Sociologizing resilience. Reflections from the Spanish experience”. 

The seminar is hosted by Sara Kauko, a postdoctoral researcher at the department for Gender Studies, Lund University. 

Social Resilience and Migration

November 4, 15.15-17.00

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Meeting ID: 690 2034 5388, Password: 316223

At this seminar, we will discuss and problematise what social resilience can mean in the context of migration with insights from three qualitative and mixed-methods projects focusing refugee- and migrant experiences.

Speakers:

Philomena Okeke-Ihejirika, Professor of Women and Gender Studies, University of Alberta, CAN. On Re-envisioning Resilience: African Immigrant and Refugee Families’ Resilience in Transnational Contexts.

Ibrahim Kira, Professor of Health and Human Services, Director of the Center for Cumulative Trauma Studies, Georgia, US. On the will to fight (exist, live, and survive) in Syrian refugees and torture survivors.

Torun Elsrud, Associate Professor of Sociology, Linnaeus Univ. SWE. On Hope, agency, and suffering in the asylum context.

Azher Hameed Qamar, Postdoctoral researcher, School of Social Work, Lund Univ. SWE. Social Resilience in the context of immigrants’ transitory experience in the host country.