Anthro Proseminar Series: "Navigating Multiple Disasters"

When

Feb. 3, 2025, 11:30am to 12:30pm

Campus Location

Office/Remote Location

212

Description

Speaker: Maja Jeranko

In this second installment of the Spring 2025 Proseminar Speaker Series, hosted by the Department of Anthropology, Jeranko will discuss the 22 months of community engaged ethnographic research on cascading disasters --including earthquakes, flooding, and COVID-19 --in coastal Ecuador, and, more recently, in Seattle, Washington. 

This talk will examine how marginalized communities face overlapping adversities and environmental injustices to build more equitable futures. Grounded in critical feminist and developmental theory, disaster anthropology, political ecology, and decolonial studies. 

Jeranko explores the interplay of material reconstruction, human-environmental relations, gender-based violence, and intimate cultural practices in shaping adaptive capacities to socio-environmental crises. Highlighting community-led initiatives to rethink the notions of vulnerability and resilience amid on-going disasters and risk mitigation efforts 

Admission Information

Free

Contact Information

Department of Anthropology
Matthew Montalto