Exploring and Problematising Family Resilience
Exploring and Problematising Family Resilience
Wednesday, 9 July 2025: 13:00-14:45
Location: ASJE013 (Annex of the Faculty of Legal, Economic, and Social Sciences)
RC06 Family Research (host committee) Language: English and French
Resilience is a term of the moment, and it appears for the future. With roots in ecological sciences especially, its focus on disturbance and adaptation makes it appealing as a way of thinking about recurrent and new crises. Resilience is also a term increasingly applied to families. This session hopes to attract submissions that contribute to understanding of:
a) critical reflection on the utility of 'resilience thinking' for the study of families;
b) the processes and structural factors that increase the significance of resilience as a challenge for families (and societies);
c) how families - and individual members - operate and address relevant challenges and manage change;
d) the role of policies and changes in the welfare state in either ameliorating or improving families' capacities.
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