Senada Šelo Šabić, Ph.D., and Emina Bužinkić, Ph.D., participated in the workshop Resilience/Resistance in an Age of Global Uncertainties on March 14, 2025. The event was organized as part of the ENDURE project (Inequalities, Community Resilience, and New Governance Modalities in a Post-Pandemic World), which brings together 11 countries to examine the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Hosted by the State University of Campinas (Unicamp) at the Institute of Geosciences, the workshop took place from March 13 to 14, 2025, serving as a transdisciplinary forum for researchers, professionals, and students. It provided a platform to present and discuss research conducted within the scope of the ENDURE project both on site and online.
The workshop was structured around six thematic panels, beginning with Governance and Policy Responses to COVID-19 and concluding with Global and Cross-National Perspectives on Resilience. On the second day, Dr. Šelo Šabić and Dr. Bužinkić presented their research, Civic Mobilization and the Limits of Governance: Social Responses to COVID-19 in Croatia, as part of the panel Social Mobilization and Activism. The research explores the intersection of social and political dynamics during the COVID-19 pandemic in Croatia, focusing on how the crisis governance exposed tensions between state authority, civic resistance, and grassroots organizing. By analyzing anti-vaccination protests and community-driven solidarity initiatives, the study examines how distrust in governmental institutions fuels both organized dissent and alternative forms of social cohesion, contributing to broader discussions on democratic resilience and systemic change.
