NEXT TALK: Next talk 31st of October, 7pm - Sesonal mood disorders
Cittie Of Yorke, 22 High Holborn, WC1V 6BN
Anthropology of disaster: what can catastrophes tell us about human societies? 2014/07/29
Disasters disrupt human societies and the environment. Different countries choose to prepare for various calamities in very diverse ways ranging from community-based and professional institutions to material infrastructures. The framing of state-led disaster preparedness thus tells us a lot about the relationship between the state and the citizen. In my talk, I will show this diversity of citizen-state relationships using the examples of India, Switzerland and the UK, which we have been studying in our ERC-funded research project ‘Organizing Disaster: Civil Protection and the Population’. (More on organizingdisaster.net).
Dr. Zuzana Hrdličková
is a post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Sociology of Goldsmiths, University of London. She is an anthropologist with a background in South Asian Studies currently working on the ERC-funded project ‘Organizing Disaster: Civil Protection and Population’. Besides anthropology of disaster, her interests include conflict, gender and Science and Technology studies. She has worked for humanitarian organizations in disaster relief and war contexts.
