Resilience as process and narration: Frictions, opportunities and new avenues of collaborative research at the intersection of social sciences and history

Abstract

Resilience is a highly flexible concept that can be (and actually is) used in increasingly diverse fields (Mark Edwards 2019, in this volume) and disciplinary contexts (Wink 2016). At the Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space (IRS) in Erkner, we used the concept of resilience as a boundary concept to conduct cross-departmental research. We applied the concept to different empirical research fields, like climate change (Christmann, Balgar & Mahlkow 2014), neighborhood development (Bürk, Kühn & Sommer 2012) and river basin management (Sondershaus & Moss 2014).