Influences of Covid-19 Crisis on Resilience Theories: An analysis of Community, Societal and Governance Resilience

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Abstract

Background: The present article addresses the theories on resilience among the various areas of analysis and research: community, societal and governance.

Objectives: As we challenge the third year of the pandemics, the study exposes the theoretical and conceptual approaches to resilience demanding a multisystemic response and participation from all areas of the society: community, society, institutions etc.

Methods: Further, the study uses the role of theories during the COVID-19 pandemic by presenting a comprehensive review of how resilience is built through the community and societal mechanisms and processes. We have also employed a quantitative analysis using the search engine provided by the Google Ngram Viewer (Google Ngram) on the digitalised literature prior the COVID-19 pandemic.

Results and findings: Additionally, the study provides an in-depth analysis of the theories on resilience as the results emphasize the selected word frequencies of the "resilience" concept and related topics before the COVID-19 pandemic.

Conclusions: The research addressed the quantitative and qualitative approaches of content analysis revealing the consequences of the COVID-19 crisis on the theoretical framework of "resilience" and related terms.

Keywords: resilience; community; society; governance; COVID-19 pandemic.

Introduction

The research on the theories of resilience has been investigated in various sectors during the last years, merely relating the resilience concepts to (a) correlates of leadership, crisis management and "operational behaviour" (Pettersson, Jonson, Berggren, Hermelin, Trnka, Woltjer, Prytz, 2021: 1-10; Teo, Lee, Lim, 2017: 135-147); (b) relationship between "collective resilience" and individual conditions (Molenaar, Blessin, Erfurth, Imhoff, 2022: 167-191); (c) knowledge of capability and social resilience (Assmann, Tolgensbakk, Vedeler, Bøhler, 2021: 659-673); (d) accounts of social capital, social agenda work and social system (Furey, Harris-Evans, 2021: 404-414; Olimid, Georgescu, 2017: 42-56); (e) the inner-issues of EU governance and resilience (Georgescu, Olimid, Olimid, Georgescu, Gherghe, 2017).

Methodology

The article uses the method of literature review of the theories on resilience. This method has the role: (a) to identify the major studies on the topic of resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic; (b) to identify the new patterns and contributions on specific topics of community, resilience, resilient community, societal resilience and resilient governance; (c) to provide a new framework of research for the resilience-related topics. Furthermore, the study advances five research steps aimed to investigate the review: (1) the launch...