The Joint Committee for Nordic research councils in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NOS-HS), through its call for exploratory workshops, has granted funding for the project “Politics and Power of Resilience”.

The world today has set itself the goal of improved adaptation,
preparedness and alertness in the face of global change. Rapid and drastic global
changes have prompted the political and social scientific use of ‘resilience’. In
social scientific scholarship to date, resilience is presented as an answer to and a
necessity in dealing with the current unpredictability. By developing resilience, it
is claimed, individuals and communities can avoid the worst-case scenarios deriving
from uncertainty and be prepared to cope with the unknown. 

In the midst of the upsurge of resilience, its fundamental premises
have remained understudied: How does resilience order society? The project Politics
and Power of Resilience sets out to explore this question. As a series of
exploratory workshops funded by NOS-HS for 2023-2024, it specifically aims at
developing multidisciplinary critical discussion on resilience and its power effects
in the Nordic context. The project partners include Marjo Lindroth, Julian Reid and
Heidi Sinevaara-Niskanen from the University of Lapland, Claes Tängh Wrangel from
Uppsala University and Frank Sejersen from the University of Copenhagen. 
Altogether, three workshops will be organized, one in each partner institution. The
project’s workshops will invite researchers from different career stages to debate
resilience and its emergence in Nordic discussions on politics, security, economy
and, for example, welfare. 

NOS-HS is a
collaboration between the research councils in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and
Sweden responsible for research within the Humanities and Social Sciences. One of
its funding mechanisms is to support Nordic research cooperation through exploratory
workshops. The main aim of the workshops “is to fund the development of
new  curiosity-driven research areas and programmes within the humanities
and social sciences”. Altogether, 33 projects received funding in
2022. 

For more
information:

Information on NOS-HS exploratory workshops
2022

Marjo Lindroth, Arctic Centre,
marjo.lindroth[at]ulapland.fi
Julian Reid, Faculty of Social Sciences,
julian.reid[at]ulapland.fi
Heidi Sinevaara-Niskanen, Gender Studies,
Faculty of Education, heidi.sinevaara-niskanen[at]ulapland.fi