What Does Catastrophe Reveal for Whom? The Anthropology of Crises and Disasters at the Onset of the Anthropocene.
The modernist usage of the word crisis conveys the idea of an event that acts as a historical judgment, marks an epochal transition, and sometimes leads to a utopian era. Furthermore, current uses of crisis in the political sphere often figure catastrophic events as the result of errors and malfunct...
| Publicado en: | Annual Review of Anthropology Vol. 46; no. 1; pp. 151 - 163 |
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Annual Reviews Inc.
Oct2017
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