International Conference Southern and Mediterranean Europe

Social Change, Challenges and Opportunities in a Time of Crisis

The Research and Study Group of the ESRS ‘Southern and Mediterranean Europe: Social Change, Challenges and Opportunities’ organizes its I Mini-Conference in order to discuss the impact of the current crisis on the rural territories of countries of the Southern and Mediterranean Europe, the social change that these territories are experiencing, the challenges they have to face in the everyday life and the opportunities they may have in order to succeed in this new context. Therefore, contributions should be focused on these topics to stress the diverse problems and issues resulted from them, as well as on the new opportunities that emerge in this upheaval scenario: emergence of new social inequalities, new processes of empowerment and disempowerment of rural communities, resilient strategies, rural mobilities, migrations, new models of rural governance, rural welfare, the rural as an emancipatory space.