Monday 4/4, 13.15 – 15.00 in Room 403: Seminar - a critical engagement with the concept of resilience (moderated by Per Knutsson)

The focus of this seminar is a critical discussion on the contribution of and criticism against resilience theory. The seminar will be take place in the form of discussion in smaller groups.

Individual preparation before the seminar:

Read the compulsory papers (see below). Then watch this youtube film. Informed by the literature on risk, vulnerability and adaptation that we have covered so far, reflect on the arguments and standpoints expressed in the film and formulate 1 - 2 questions/problems/themes that you would like to engage with during the seminar.

You find instructions for the individual assignment linked to the seminar here:

Individual assignment in relation to the seminar

Compulsory Reading:

Folke, C. (2016). Resilience (Republished). Ecology and Society 21(4):44. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-09088-210444

Olsson, L., Jerneck, A., Thoren, H., Persson, J., & O’Byrne, D. (2015). Why resilience is unappealing to social science: Theoretical and empirical investigations of the scientific use of resilience. Science Advances, 1(4), e1400217–e1400217. A pdf-version is available here

Further reading:

Meerow, S., Newell, J. & Stults, M. (2016). Defining Urban Resilience: A Review. Landscape and Urban Planning147: 38 – 49.

Birkenholtz, T. (2012). Network political ecology: Method & theory in climate change vulnerability and adaptation research. Progress in Human Geography 36(3): 295 – 315.