SYRI
SYRI
Research group leader Social Resilience: Alice Koubová, Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences
Principal investigator from IE CAS: Michal Šípoš
Team members from IE CAS: Luděk Brož, Martin Fotta, Ognjen Kojanic, Ivana Camphuijsen
SYRI is a scientific platform that brings together experts from Masaryk University, Charles University and the Czech Academy of Sciences to examine risks and address social challenges arising from dramatic events such as the global health crisis, the war between Russia and Ukraine, and a range of environmental crises. Within SYRI, our team works in the Social Resilience research group, which understands the phenomenon as a process that strengthens cohesion among various actors—such as institutions, communities and individuals—during periods of unprecedented change, uncertainty and unforeseen risks. Resilience is sustained through social bonds, inclusive practices, shared values, life strategies and state policies. Our team contributes to the collective research by developing an ethnographic theory as a guiding analytical framework. Rather than treating resilience as a universal aspect of the human condition, we zoom in on concrete lives in various contexts, where practices of sustaining life amid the ongoing polycrisis are of central importance.
