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- Convenors:
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Fariya Hashmat
(Lahore School of Economics)
Tony Bradley (Liverpool Hope University)
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- Format:
- Paper panel
Short Abstract:
The panel’s focus will be on differential capacities of households to absorb shocks, adapt to or transform their situations via mobilizing small scale capital and sociopolitical networks. Contributors will present studies on responsiveness to polycrisis impacting communities across developing world.
Long Abstract:
The current polycrisis necessitate communities across the developing world, specifically in the global South and East, to respond with resilience to unforeseen shocks and events. The backdrop to this Panel is research conducted by the conveners, who examined how households responded to the 2022 catastrophic floods along the Indus River system in Pakistan. Their findings suggested a diversity of responses that led to exploring further avenues pertinent to this significant topic. Some households experienced heightened vulnerability, whereas others showed ability to absorb shocks, adapt to new situations or transform their life trajectories. It was this differential ability of households to mobilize their small-scale capital and capacities, including social and political networks, which indicated varied responses to crisis events.
Diverse case studies, with comparable theoretical models for comprehending resilient action, will be represented across the developing world. As such, we are inviting the presentations, in this Panel Session, of other studies related to crises responsiveness, resilience, and adaptation. The Panel will examine and reflect on the variety of cases, which indicate the use of various forms of capital that lead to community resilience in the face of multiple crises.
We welcome contributions of a theoretical, empirical and methodological nature, which are able to shed light on these diverse capacities for resilience within communities affected by crises. In particular, the Panel Session will seek to illuminate situations of social cohesion, social inclusion, socio-economic stabilization, and social empowerment, which constitute dimensions of ‘social quality’, in an increasingly uncertain world.