Resiliencies: Comparing and Integrating Methodologies, Methods, Narratives, and Theories (RECOMENT) - Leibniz ScienceCampus Mainz/Trier

While the concept of resilience is being applied in a variety of disciplinary contexts, there is also growing political and public interest in the topic. This profiliation of perspectives on resilience cannot, therefore, be tackled from one disciplinary perspective alone but requires inter-/transdisciplinary approaches.

The Leibniz ScienceCampus “Resiliencies: Comparing and Integrating Methodologies, Methods, Narratives, and Theories” (RECOMENT) aims to contribute to an integration of various disciplinary approaches in the study of resilience phenomena, factors, patterns and mechanisms, as well as interrelations and interdependencies by comparing and integrating methods, methodologies, narratives and theories. Without merging all disciplines into a unified holistic theory, RECOMENT wants to find ways to collaborate productively across disciplinary boundaries.

RECOMENT aims to make resilience strong as a heuristic, as an observational perspective for the analysis of bio-cultural, socio-ecological and socio-historical processes. The question is in which context which concept of resilience can be made analytically fruitful and how concepts used in different disciplines can be effectively integrated to come to a better understanding of resiliencies.