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.
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ciera.williamsThis policy applies to "individuals directly impacted by the terrorist attack in New York City on September 11, 2001" The policy further specifies emergency responders, recovery workers, cleanup workers, residents, building occupants, and area workers in NYC.,
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ciera.williamsThe film looks at the work of MSF as an immediate relief effort, without too much in terms of long term sustainability. The doctors discuss this and how they can leave the clinic with some form of ongoing care, but that the infrastructure of the country itself does not support long term medical facilities. They look at it as an immediate fix to a forever existing problem. MSF is only there to help while they are there.
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ciera.williamsEmergency response isn't specifically addressed, though follow-up aid is the main focus.
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.