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Environmental Right-To-Know and the Transmutations of Law

Law does more than codify, regulate, and control; it also catalyzes and transmutes, provoking cascading social and cultural effects, particularly when the force of law is informational.

SfAA Panel: Beyond Environmental Injustice

Essay for the double-panel "Beyond Environmental Injustice", 81st Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, March 22-27, 2021.

The Battle for 'Cancer Alley': A Thin Green Line

Newspaper article

Repertoires of Knowledge in Times of Pandemic: Insight on the Fridays for Future Movement in Mexico (Mariana Arjona Soberón)

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Chronic Disaster Syndrome: Displacement, Disaster Capitalism, and the Eviction of the Poor from New Orleans

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What are the main findings or arguments presented in the article?

The main focus of this article was on chronic disaster syndrome, or the psychological and physiological effects generated by the disruptions caused by a disaster, or specifically in this article, Hurricane Katrina. The effects of long term stress related to loss of family, shelter, community and jobs are analyzed. In this article individual suffering based off chronic trauma and long term displacement, disaster capitalism tied to social welfare and the ways the displacement function within the disaster capitalism are discussed in this article.

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Mental Health Consequences of Disaster

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Who are the authors, where do they work, and what are their areas of expertise? How is the author professionally situated in respect to emergency response? Note any other publications/research foci that are of relevance to the DSTS Network.

The authors are Emily Goldmann and Sandro Galea. Emily Goldmann is a PhD, MPH, and assistant research professor of global public health at the College of Global Public Health at NYU. Her work focuses on social and environmental determinants of mental health consequences of health events such as strokes. She has an interest in epidemiology and she studied economics and Mandarin as an undergraduate at Columbia University and got her Masters and PhD in epidemiology from University of Michigan.

Sandor Galea is an MD, MPH and DrPHD. He is the Dean at Boston University School of Public Health. He has worked at the University of Michigan and New York Academy of Medicine. His works centers around the social production of health of urban populations and he focuses on the causes of brain disorders. Both very public health oriented.