The Anthropology Of Disasters In Latin America: State Of The Art (routledge Studies In Hazards, Disaster Risk And Climate Change)

"This book offers anthropological insights into disasters in Latin America. It fills a gap in the literature by bringing together national and regional perspectives in the study of disasters. The book essentially explores the emergence and development of anthropological studies of disasters. It adopts a methodological approach based on ethnography, participant observation, and field research to assess the social and historical constructions of disasters and how these are perceived by people of a certain region. This regional perspective helps assess long-term dynamics, regional capacities, and regional global interactions on disaster sites. With chapters written by prominent Latin American anthropologists, this book also considers the role of the state and other nongovernmental organizations in managing disasters and the specific conditions of each country, relative to a greater or lesser incidence of disastrous events. Globalizing the existing literature on disasters with a focus on Latin America, this book offers multidisciplinary insights that will be of interest to academics and students of geography, anthropology, sociology, and political science"-- Provided by publisher Cover Half Title Series Title Copyright Contents List of maps List of contributors Foreword Prologue Acknowledgments Introduction: anthropologists studying disasters in Latin America: why, when, how? 1 Risk and uncertainty in Argentinean Social Anthropology 2 The field of Anthropology of Disasters in Brazil: challenges and perspectives 3 The Anthropology of Disasters that has yet to be: the case of Central America 4 Thinking through disaster: ethnographers and disastrous landscapes in Colombia 5 Anthropologies of Disasters in Ecuador: connections and apertures 6 The Mexican vein in the Anthropology of Disasters and Risk 7 Is there an Anthropology of Risks and Disasters in Peru? 8 Anthropology of Socionatural Disasters in Uruguay 9 An epistemological proposal for the Anthropology of Disasters: the Venezuelan school Index