Building Humanitarian Networks and Community Resilience in the Era of Social Distancing
As the world adjusts to an unprecedented new era of social distancing in response to covid-19, NGOs and community activists are forced to consider new ways of securing their networks and defending the most vulnerable.
Participants will consider themselves as nodes of resilience in broader community and humanitarian networks and how access to ‘self-care’ is a deeply unequal experience. We will explore how pre-existing discourses of marginalisation and exclusion are replicated in this crisis.
From teachers and NGO workers in Greece, the US and the USA, participants will hear of the quotidian challenges of this reconfigured world and how partnership with communities is becoming increasingly essential
The series will be an interdisciplinary look at the international challenges of this ‘new normal’ and what part can humanities and arts scholars play in this reconfiguration.