Towards a resilience theory that embraces a broad temporal and scalar perspective

Abstract

During the conference “Strategies, Dispositions and Resources of Social Resilience. A Dialogue between Medieval Studies and Sociology”, scholars from various backgrounds presented their approach to resilience thinking as a common boundary object for the conference. In his introductory talk, Benjamin Rampp already highlighted one crucial issue that turned out to be at the core of many of the following talks: the question of scaling.