Building Pluresilience Paradigm through Family-Community Humanities

KRW 4,600,000,000 (RMB 23,500,000) between 2025 and 2031

This project foregrounds the concept of “resilience” as the core of a new humanities discourse responding to an era of disasters and compound crises. In particular, it moves beyond resilience understood as functional recovery or a return to normality, and newly proposes the notion of “pluresilience”—a plural form of resilience that, taking crisis as an opportunity, generates new imaginaries and practices through the reconfiguration of diverse desires and relations.

The study will multilayeredly explore the resilient capacities of five core values—attunement, communication, solidarity, symbiosis, and memory—across five analytical dimensions: the individual, community, social structure, ecology, and time. In doing so, the humanities are expected to expand their role not only in fostering inner human recovery, but also in eliciting transformative imagination at the levels of community, structures, and ecosystems.