Entangled roots and otherwise possibilities: An anthropology of disasters COVID-19 research agenda
Publication Date
12-1-2020
Document Type
Article
Publication Title
Human Organization
Volume
79
Issue
4
DOI
10.17730/1938-3525-79.4.333
First Page
333
Last Page
342
Abstract
We develop questions for a COVID-19 research agenda from the anthropology of disasters to study the production of pandemic as a feature of the normatively accepted societal state of affairs. We encourage an applied study of the pandemic that recognizes it as the product of connections between people, with their social systems, nonhumans, and the material world more broadly, with attention to root causes, (post)colonialism and capitalism, multispecies networks, the politics of knowledge, gifts and mutual aid, and the work of recovery.
Keywords
Colonialism, Epidemics, Multi-species ethnography, Mutual aid, Otherwise, Politics of knowledge, Reciprocity
Department
Anthropology
Recommended Citation
A. J. Faas, Roberto Barrios, Virginia García-Acosta, Adriana Garriga-López, Seven Mattes, and Jennifer Trivedi. "Entangled roots and otherwise possibilities: An anthropology of disasters COVID-19 research agenda" Human Organization (2020): 333-342. https://doi.org/10.17730/1938-3525-79.4.333
