About the project
This networking project focuses on Sub-Saharan Africa as the first step in addressing the exclusionary practices of critical resilience scholarship.
The project utilises established research networks and will convene workshops in Accra, Ghana, Juba, South Sudan, and Kigali, Rwanda. While the initial reach is limited, the selection of locations for the workshops guarantees the combination of existing critical scholarship with widespread practices of implementing resilience programming and through national policy initiatives. The approach of ResilienceVoices is twofold: first, it aims at expanding a scholarly network from a small, existing core group to a bigger core group of eight scholars, and then to further expand it through in-country workshops with broader participation. This network is then fostered by a joint publication project (edited volume). Second, the main method of stimulating the debates on resilience are two-day workshops, each focusing on one of the emergent themes – withdrawal, indigeneity, development – where the whole core group participates along with about twelve scholars from the respective countries (Ghana, Rwanda, South Sudan). This methodical approach reflects the aims and objectives of ResilienceVoices, which are threefold: the facilitation of the establishment of a Global-South-based network of critical resilience scholars, the furthering the epistemological and ontological critique of resilience and a critical reconsideration of the concept of resilience from the margins.
Funding bodies
Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)
Research team
- Professor David Chandler, University of Westminster
- Dr Jan Pospisil, Coventry University