Resilience as self-governance: human, societal, inter-species, planetary
We focus on understanding crisis/adversity/change through resilience – human, societal, inter-species, planetary – as a way of living, and governing complexity, with a focus on community of relations
Contributions of this research theme focus on:
- Understanding change and complexity through resilience as self-governance
- Exploring community as relations as a way to survive, adapt and transform in crisis
- Mapping resilience across multiple world localities (Latin America, Africa, Central Eurasia) affected by crises
- Developing tools for more informed policy and practice-driven decisions
Main topics
- Complexity-thinking in the VUCA world: towards behavioural change
- Relationality & interspecies politics
- The meaning of community of relations
- Resilience as self- & diversity-governance
- Sustainable living and urban resilience
- Planetary challenges and response to crises
- Ordering domains in diversity-governance
Projects
SHAPEDEM-EU (2022-25)
RESILIENCE AND WAR (2022-23)
RiskPACC (2021-24)
Facilitating Knowledge Exchange through Dialogical Participatory Mapping (2022-23)
COMPASS+: Tackling Sustainability Challenges in times of War and Crises (2022-23)
OBO: Raising Awareness of Challenges facing Contemporary Belarus and the wider region (2021-23)
Staff associated with this theme
Associated Staff:
Prof. Jon Coaffee; Prof. Robin Goodwin; Dr Adela Glyn-Davies