CRISIS, HARDSHIP AND A CRITICAL ENGAGEMENT WITH ‘THE RESILIENCE’ APPROACH
25 June 2015, from 14.00 to 15.30, Law Court W125
Chair: Ursula Huws
Economic hardship is a constant feature of life for some, temporary or unknown for others. The recent economic crisis has (re)introduced it to some people’s lives and deepened it for those who were already in it through joblessness, spending cuts and regressive changes in the welfare regimes. Ability of people to cope with hardship is analysed through the lens of ‘resilience’ by some scholars. This is also promoted by some policy circles. How appropriate is this approach in understanding the dynamics of hardship and how people deal with it? This workshop with a combination of papers aims to address this and other related questions.
Hartley Dean (London School of Economics) Resilience or Resistance?
The presentation will aim to reconceptualise our understanding of social rights as the articulation of human needs, and reflect on the competing discursive constructions of social rights across Europe. It will suggest that we might now shift attention from the study of resilience and the survival strategies of disadvantaged households in an era of austerity towards an exploration of alternative rights-based strategies, informed by an ‘insurgent’ politics of needs interpretation and an alternative social citizenship ideal.
Johannes Kiess (Universität Siegen) LIVEWHAT: How EU Citizens Deal with Crises and their Social and Political Consequences
LIVEWHAT is an EU funded project investigating citizens’ reactions to economic crises and their social and political consequences. It examines their individual and collective responses, including private, public, political and non-political dimensions of such responses, using online surveys, media analysis tools and experiments. The presentation will give an overview of the aims and the early findings in the project.
Hulya Dagdeviren (Hertfordshire Business School) RESCUE: Crises, Hardship and Socio-economic Practices of Coping
RESCUE is an EU funded project investigating the household strategies in dealing with hardship in the context of the recent economic crisis in Europe. It considers household specific factors (such as family biographies) as well as wider cultural, economic, social and political forces that shape their daily practices. This presentation will focus on strategies in relation to work, consumption and assets/resources of households in hardship.
Attendance is FREE but limited places are available. Please register your attendance with an email to Dr Matt Donoghue: [log in to unmask]
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