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Labour relations under duress in Europe: Contributions for social resilience th...

Using a theoretical approach founded on resilience studies, this article presents a comparative analysis of the reconfiguration of labour relations in Portugal, Poland and Ireland during the financial crisis. It proposes a critical understanding of social resilience that captures not only the organisation of the system that emerges post-crisis but also its underlying dynamic power relations, the rule and instit...

Structural foundations of social resilience

This article aims to contribute to the theoretical development of the social resilience approach. Recognising the interface between resilience and poverty studies, it proposes a distinct role for resilience research from a critical perspective to understand the dynamics of hardship in exceptional times, such as times of socio-economic crises, rather than explaining the long-term trajectories of poverty. It then...

Artificial intelligence as a resilient tool for fighting inequalities in the CO...

Can artificial intelligence (AI) be a sustainable way to help solving the Covid-19 global problem? What does the way how welfare states, charity organizations and labour markets are dealing with the pandemic crisis tells us about the AI capacity for reducing exposition of underprivileged groups to the desease? It is becoming more and more visible how the new coronavirus pandemic is affecting specifically the mo...

Handicap as a measure of perceived health status in Parkinson’s disease

Measuring perceived-health status in Parkinson’s Disease – the role of London H...

Resilience: moving from a 'heroic' notion to a sociological concept

This paper presents a specific sociological theoretical framework to the concept of resilience. To do so, we reviewed the main theoretical developments on resilience, focusing our attention on the development of a “heroic” perspective of resilience. We point out its several pitfalls, and counter it with a concept of resilience grounded on sociological theory and poverty studies, presenting a definition for resi...

Resilient households and welfare state institutions : portuguese national report

The welfare state is a recent development in Portugal, just as it is in many other Southern and Eastern European countries. Portugal’s late industrialisation resulted in the beginnings of protection against social risks being sketched out during the First Republic (1910-26), when laws were passed establishing this protection along Bismarckian lines; however, these laws were never enforced. The social protection...

The spatial dimension of household’s resilience : portuguese national report

The current report presents the results of the analysis of the interviews that were made by the Portuguese team within the RESCUE project. The goal of this report was to explore the data collected during fieldwork from a spatial perspective. We thus followed an essentially comparative method, focusing on phenomena which presented different aspects or configurations in the rural and urban areas of our sample.

Report on social economy & household resilience: portuguese national report

Current attempts to define the social economy are associated with the Charter of principles of social economy CEP-CMAF from 20021. It says that: social economy organizations are social and economic entities operating in all sectors. They are distinguished mainly by their objectives and characteristic form of entrepreneurship. The social economy includes organizations such as cooperatives, mutual societies, asso...

Communities, participation & politics: portuguese national report

Writing a report on political and community participation based on our fieldwork data was not an easy task. We were not expecting to find very high levels of civic engagement beforehand, due the traditionally extremely low levels of political participation in Portugal – as will be discussed on Chapter 1 of this report. And such expectations were largely confirmed. Indeed, one the more noticeable reactions of ho...