Description:
Bringing together international theoretical and ethnographic perspectives, this volume examines individuals within socio-cultural contexts shaped by global crises. Drawing on Covid-19 lockdown experiences, it considers in-placement, situates epidemics within the risk field, and questions whether established anthropological approaches remain adequate.
Brief description:
Susanna M. Hoffman is a risk and disaster anthropologist, and the author/editor of fourteen books, two ethnographic films, and over forty articles. Among her books are: The Angry Earth (three editions); Disaster Upon Disaster (Berghahn Books, 2019); and the forthcoming Nostalgia, Ecalgia, Topalgia. She launched the Risk and Disaster Group for the Society of Applied Anthropology and for the International Union of Anthropology and Ethnographic Sciences. She was the first recipient of the Fulbright Foundation Aegean Initiative Grant concerning disasters and helped write the United Nations Statement on Women and Disaster.