The Power of Collective Resilience Against Political Violence and Repression

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-70853-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 260 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

This book outlines the importance of collective resilience for groups who have faced challenging or threatening circumstances, such as war and political violence.

Drawing on novel research from a range of diverse contexts, the book explores a nuanced picture of how political violence can lead to increased social cooperation and action within communities, as well as the well documented negative dynamics. It brings together researchers studying the collective resilience of civilians in the context of political violence and repression in three fields: psychological well-being, resistance and collective action, and reconciliation and peacebuilding. Chapters describe the underlying social-psychological processes behind collective resilience and discuss the limits and boundary conditions in the emergence of resilience. The book critiques and extends our psychological understanding of resilience in conflict settings, using multiple methodological and epistemological approaches as well as interdisciplinary perspectives to understand conditions, underlying processes, and consequences of collective resilience.

The Power of Collective Resilience Against Political Violence and Repression will be highly relevant reading for postgraduate students and academics in the fields of social and political psychology, and those researching intergroup relations, social change, peace and conflict. It will also be of interest to activists interested in collective action and resilience.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kellezi, Blerina

Acar, Yasemin Gulsum

Penic, Sandra

Këllezi, Blerina

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Sozialpsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Staatsbürgerkunde, Staatsbürgerschaft, Zivilgesellschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Collective resilience against political violence and repression: An introduction

Yasemin Gülsüm Acar, Blerina Këllezi & Sandra Penic

I. Beyond trauma: Collective resilience in coping with victimisation

A social identity model of collective resilience in emergent groups

John Drury & Evangelos Ntontis

Understanding collective resilience of civilians in the contexts of political violence and repression

Orla Muldoon, Anna-Mariya Lashkay, Alžbeta Lebedová, Dearbhla Moroney, Catriona Shelly, & Lisa Skilton

The good, the bad and the ugly: Social cure and social curse in the context of political violence and repression

Blerina Këllezi

II. Beyond resignation: Collective resilience as resistance

“They are not your cheerleaders, mate, they are coming to fight the fight.” Media presentations of women’s collective resilience and resistance in the Sudan revolution  Sigrun Marie Moss, Lara-Sabina Sorgenfrei, & Salma Mohamed Abdalmunim Abdalla

Resilience versus Resistance? Insights from the Recent Multiple-Crises Context of Lebanon

Yara Zebian, Haneen Eldiri, & Rim Saab

Rethinking collective resilience under oppression through Kurdish understandings of power and resistance

canan coskan & Helin Ünal

The power of Black resilience: The role of history in contributing to collective resilience

Hema Preya Selvanathan & Phia Salter

Collective Resilience and Resistance

Carmen Marazzi, Aritra Mukherjee, & Johanna Ray Vollhardt

III. Beyond ‘us vs. them’: Inclusive resilience

Inclusive resilience in violent settings

Sandra Penic, Guy Elcheroth, John Dixon, & Simon Hug

Altruism born of suffering: How empathy, compassion, and self-compassion promote coping with violence

Patricia Cernadas Curotto

Beyond Vulnerability: Collective Victimization Beliefs that are Linked to Collective Resilience

Hu Young Jeong, Michelle S. Twali, & Johanna Ray Vollhardt

Remembering, resilience, and intergroup relations

Sandra Obradovic

The power and limits of collective resilience: Conceptualising collective resilience that recognizes the impact of political violence and repression on groups and societies

Blerina Këllezi, Yasemin Gülsüm Acar, & Sandra Penic

Über Autor(innen)

Yasemin Gülsüm Acar is a Lecturer in the School of Psychology & Neuroscience at the University of St Andrews, UK. Yasemin’s research interests include outcomes of collective action, social identity, and intergroup conflict.

Blerina Këllezi is an Associate Professor in Social and Trauma Psychology at Nottingham Trent University, UK. Blerina’s research investigates the collective nature of the experiences, impact and responses to mass human rights violations.

Sandra Penic is a senior researcher and lecturer at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. Sandra’s research examines the impact of collective victimization on individuals’ emotions, beliefs, and actions in various conflict-affected societies.