Leibniz ScienceCampus

Resilience has become a key concept in science, politics, and society. The growing importance of the concept of resilience has been accompanied by an increasing diversity of disciplinary approaches – from biology and sociology to cultural studies and ecology. Resilience processes cannot therefore be understood from a single disciplinary perspective: This proliferation of perspectives requires inter-/transdisciplinary approaches.

The Leibniz ScienceCampus RECOMENT (“Resiliencies: Comparing and Integrating Methodologies, Methods, Narratives, and Theories”) addresses this issue: Without merging all disciplines into a unified holistic theory, RECOMENT aims to arrive at a realistic assessment of what inter- and transdisciplinary research on resilience can achieve and to elaborate the necessary framework for this venture. By comparing and integrating methods, procedures, narratives, and theories, RECOMENT aims to build bridges between disciplines and develop new forms of productive interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary collaboration.

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 central question is: Which resilience concepts prove to be analytically fruitful in which context – and how can different approaches be effectively combined?