In a Time of Accelerating Calamities, Redefining the Anthropology of Risk and Disaster

Abstract (English)

Time, research, expanded understanding, and new circumstances are shifting and widening many central platforms in the anthropology of risk and disaster. Due to the increasingly complex global transformations, the field is by necessity becoming more inter- and multi-disciplinary, blending theory, research, practice, policy, and blurring the separations of prior epistemologies. This panel examines these developments, the intersectionalities, approaches, and what needs be addressed now in an era of proliferating calamity and precarity.