Support and resilience
in crisis and
disaster contexts
In a context of climate, environmental, and technological crisis, CareNet analyses how societies confront and transform situations of uncertainty, emergency, and ecosocial tensions. We understand crises and disasters not only as exceptional events, but as processes that reveal the fragilities of the material, social, and institutional infrastructures that sustain collective life. Our research focuses on the sociotechnical, institutional, and community-based production of vulnerability and risk, as well as on the practices of adaptation, repair, and mutual support that make it possible to sustain life under adverse conditions.
From an interdisciplinary perspective, our research examines how these dynamics take shape in specific contexts, and how exposure to risk and responsibilities for sustaining life are distributed unequally. We work with communities, institutions, and public services to co-produce knowledge, trust, and response capacities. The research combines ethnographic, participatory, and experimental approaches, with particular attention to epistemic justice and social inclusion.
Disaster risk reduction and community resilience
This subline addresses disaster risk reduction and emergency governance from a participatory and inclusive perspective. It analyses how communities, institutions, and public services co-produce knowledge, trust, and response capacities, and how social and territorial inequalities shape exposure to risk, responsibilities for sustaining life, and practices of mutual support.
Resilient cities and climate crisis
This subline designs creative methodologies and intervention practices to analyse and address the impacts of the climate crisis on urban life. In collaboration with professionals, activists, and communities in our cities, we work on mapping climate vulnerability and designing infrastructures and practices of urban care. We place particular emphasis on how social inequalities and bodily differences — such as ageing or disability — shape exposure to risks and adaptive capacities, as well as singular practices of environmental resilience.