Eva Jorgensen

ABSTRACT In this study, we explore the relational dimensions of resilience among adolescents in Iceland during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using the frameworks of social-ecological resilience and the embodied, social, and public child, we examine how resilience manifests through interactions with family, peers, and community. Participants employed tactical trust and creative strategies to navigate restrictions, transforming digital and physical spaces into sources of social connection.

Sem doktorsnemi við Félagsvísindasvið Háskóla Íslands hef ég fylgst með rektorskosningum háskólans af miklum áhuga og stendur Silja Bára upp úr sem sá leiðtogi sem mér finnst háskólinn þarfnast á þessum tíma. Í fyrsta lagi tel ég mikilvægt fyrir Háskóla Íslands að hafa einstakling úr félagsvísindum í forsvari sínu.

1. Introduction With the adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) [1], nation-states’ moral obligations towards children, as fostered in the 1924 Geneva Declaration and the earlier Rights of the Child in 1959, became legally obligatory for authorities. The new convention provided governments with guidelines on how to consider children as human rights holders within areas of law and policymaking [2] and as agents with a voice in matters about their welfare [3].