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Citizens' Resilience in time of Crisis

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The EU funded research project RESCuE investigates household resilience in times of crisis. This is based on studying practices and thought of households who are not so well off but manage to get by in difficult times.

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October 25, 2015 In News

Fieldwork conducted in Lapland

NPE team’s researchers Terhi Vuojala-Magga and Joonas Vola have spent this autumn conducting their fieldwork for the international RESCuE project in different locations around Lapland. During the fieldwork in Inari by the sand road to Kuttura they encountered also something unexpected:, the old gold digger’s...

October 5, 2015 In News

Households’ Socio-economic Practices of Resilience

The RESCuE teams investigated about households’ socio-economic practices of resilience, within the context of crisis and hardship. Each country used purposive sampling methods in order to select an appropriate range of households to take part in a series of interviews, with some further taking part...

September 21, 2015 In News

12th Conference of the European Sociological Association, Prague

The RESCuE project was participating in the 12th Conference of the European Sociological Association that took place in Prague. On Wednesday, the 26th of august, Juan Carlos Revilla and María Arnal from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid gave a presentation on “Access to Disadvantaged Groups...

August 25, 2015 In News

Forthcoming Paper in Journal of Social Policy

Hulya Dagdeviren, Matthew Donoghue and Markus Promberger: RESILIENCE, HARDSHIP AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS. Forthcoming in Journal of Social Policy, 2015. This paper provides a critical assessment of the highly agent-centric conceptualisation of the term ‘resilience’– and its hightly agent-centric conceptualisation – when applied to how individuals and...