A Revelatory Pandemic

Crisis, Agency, and COVID in Latin America

288 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Political leaders and the news media described the public-health catastrophe of COVID-19 as a crisis, while scholars and public intellectuals portrayed the pandemic as a debacle that would lay bare the inequities and contradictions of an increasingly neoliberal global political economy and usher in an era of progressive, transformative change. Bringing the anthropologies of disaster, epidemics, and crisis into conversation, A Revelatory Pandemic subjects these hopeful expectations of post-pandemic change to social-scientific scrutiny across Latin America and challenges popular and scholarly assumptions about the causes and outcomes of crisis.

• Reihe: Catastrophes in Context
• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie und Anthropologie Anthropologie Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie, Ethnographie
• ISBN: 9781836952787
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.12.2025
• Größe: 235 x 157 mm
• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Herausgegeben von: Virginia García-Acosta, Roberto Barrios