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SUMMARY: Dr. Roberto Barrios: A Revelatory Pandemic? COVID-19 and Disaster 
 Social Science
DESCRIPTION: A Revelatory Pandemic? COVID-19 and Disaster Social Science Sp
 eaker: Dr. Roberto Barrios Dept. of Anthropology & Sociology\, University o
 f New Orleans When & Where: Thursday\, Oct. 03\, 2024 | 12:30pm-2:00pm Anth
 ropology & Sociology Building (ANSO) Room 207 6303 NW Marine Drive Light re
 freshments to follow in Lino Lounge. Please RSVP in advance. Abstract: Sinc
 e the […]
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: <h4 style="text-align: center\;"><span style=
 "color: #333399\;"><strong><em>A Revelatory Pandemic? COVID-19 and Disaster
  Social Science</em></strong></span></h4><h4 style="text-align: center\;"><
 strong>Speaker: Dr. Roberto Barrios<br />Dept. of Anthropology & Sociology\
 , University of New Orleans</strong></h4><hr /><p style="text-align: center
 \;"><strong>When & Where:</strong><br />Thursday\, Oct. 03\, 2024 | 12:30pm
 -2:00pm<br />Anthropology & Sociology Building (ANSO) Room 207<br />6303 NW
  Marine Drive<br />Light refreshments to follow in Lino Lounge.<br />Please
  RSVP in advance.</p><p>[accordions collapsible=true active=false][accordio
 n title="RSVP"][gravityform id="26" title="true" description="true"][/accor
 dion][/accordions]</p><hr /><p><strong>Abstract:</strong></p><p>Since the m
 id 20<sup>th</sup> Century\, cultural anthropologists have thought of crise
 s as methodologically opportune moments that allow social scientists to see
  social structures and fault lines that are much harder to document in time
 s of “normalcy.” Others have connected the idea of the revelatory crisis to
  older Eurocentric meanings of crisis as a moment full of potential for soc
 ial transformation that separates neatly defined epochs. During the onset o
 f the COVID 19 pandemic public scholars and social commentators referenced 
 the idea of crisis as a revelatory event pregnant with transformative poten
 tial to imagine the global health disaster as a moment of reckoning that co
 uld mark the end of neoliberalism. But anthropological treatment of crisis 
 as a revelatory event has fallen short of considering the epistemological d
 iversity of the beholders of crises and has also verged on theorizing the r
 elationship between crisis and change as a purely mechanical one that all b
 ut removes human agency from the process. Using ten pandemic case studies f
 rom across Latin America\, this presentation explores how a focus on crisis
  in the Global South stands to correct the temporal and historiographic Eur
 ocentrisms of crisis theory and beckons us to re-imagine the relationship b
 etween crisis\, subjectivity\, agency\, and transformative social change.</
 p><p><strong>About Dr. Roberto Barrios</strong></p><p><img class="alignleft
  wp-image-21701 size-thumbnail" src="https://anth.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-conten
 t/uploads/sites/30/2024/09/Barrios_roberto-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="150" 
 height="150" />Dr. Barrios has researched disaster risk reduction and recov
 ery since 1999. He has conducted fieldwork in a variety of locations in Cen
 tral America\, Mexico\, the Caribbean\, the U.S. Midwest and the U.S. Gulf 
 South. Using ethnographic methods\, Dr. Barrios’ work has focused on docume
 nting the voices of disaster survivors with specific attention to the categ
 ories through which they define successful disaster recovery and the ways t
 hey narrate the connection between sensory experience and the built\, socia
 l\, and “natural” environments.</p><p>Dr. Barrios is author of Governing Af
 fect: Neoliberalism and Disaster Reconstruction and co-editor of Disaster U
 pon Disaster: Exploring the Gap Between Knowledge\, Policy and Practice. He
  is also co-editor of the Berghahn book series Catastrophes in Context with
  Crystal Felima and Mark Schuller.</p><p> </p>
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