Louisiana Environmental Action Network and the community members of Reserve LA/St John the Baptist Parish
A digital collection of material for field activities with LEAN and the community members of Reserve LA/St John the Baptist Parish.
AK COVID-Development Studies Intersections
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I am currently in the process of transitioning my M.A. level course on Science, Technology, and Development with 11 students to virtual instruction. One of my interests in engaging with COVID-19 is to examine how it (should) informs development ideologies and practices. How should students of development studies retool -- conceptually, methodologically, practically -- in wake of the pandemic?
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Andrew Lakoff is a cultural anthropologist at University of Southern California. He studies social theory and medical anthropology.
Stephen Collier is a doctor of philosophy, derpartment of Anthropology, at the University of California Berkeley. He also studies social theory and social policy.
Both have studied policies on medical aid and global health.
Some othe rpublications:
"Vaccine Politics and the Management of Public Reason"
"Global Health Security and the Pathogenic Imaginary"
"Real-Time Biopolitics: The Actuary and the Sentinel in Global Public Health"
"Vital Systems Security: Reflexive Biopolitics and the Government of Emergency"
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They did not include the viewpoint of fire fighters in this film, who were also important in the response to this disaster.
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Andreas_RebmannThis book and the associated chapters has been extensively cited and discussed. Originally written in French and translated, it is clearly an incredibly influential work.
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Through a simple and understandable GUI on the website that allows one to click to different videos within ones section and then go back to the greater timeline to move around.
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The understanding of disasters and their relation to global mental health, both to those who suffered directly from then and to those who were part of the greater community of those who suffered, is constantly evolving. Analyzation of past research and the current methods of study allow the global community to effectively understand and treat mental health on a large scale.
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It allows us to do our job during hazard events without worrying and potentially affecting the lives of patients because of financial liabilities.
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The main point was to discuss the controversy between these two, very different, safety and education zones for Nuclear disasters
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Andreas_RebmannMiriam Ticktin is an associate professor of Anthropology at The New School for Social Research and Co-Director of Zolberg Institute for Migration and Mobility. her main areas of interest include immigration and politics that interact with universal humanitarinism. Her work is related to some of the topics we cover, such as at-risk groups and mobility post-disaster, as well as current potential new health stresses on the world due to politics and immigration.