Securing the future: Resilient cities in the context of migration
This project, which is part of UiB's strategic initiative Global Challenges, sets out to examine the production of urban security problematics in the context of migration.
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Project partners are Randi Gressgård, professor at the Centre for Women's and Gender Research (SKOK), PhD candidate Anders Rubing (SKOK) and professor Bjørn Enge Bertelsen, Department of Social Anthropology, UiB.
In what is declared an increasingly complex and insecure world, there is a growing demand for resilience strategies in various fields.
For instance, the UN Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel of Global Sustainability’s 2012 report, Resilient People, Resilient Planet, describes resilience as a governance response to complex problems in a complex world, based on the assumption that the future is truly uncertain and unpredictable.
To arrive at a more specific understanding of how resilience-informed security assemblages shape global challenges, the project sets out to examine the production of urban security problematics in the context of migration.
Empirically, it focuses on transnational networks where security challenges are shaped and circulated.
The project is particularly concerned with reconfigurations of gendered and racialized challenges, as well as new forms of ignorance.
