Vivere, comprendere e agire la catastrofe Per un uso pubblico dell’antropologia

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Irene Falconieri

Abstract

Considering the relation between trust, social change and disasters, this paper presents an analysis of political transformations in a small town in the North-Eastern coast of Sicily, hit by a massive flood on October 1, 2009. The interpretation comes from a voluntary work of counseling carried out with anthropological approach as a prosecution of a Phd research (2010-2013). Both the activities of ethnographic research and political counseling, were characterized by a personal involvement into the local dynamics, in order to apply a possible “public use” of anthropology. During the research and the political action, the ethnographer tried to apply the anthropological theoretical tools to the analysis of a post-disaster setting, with the porpouse of “intervening” actively in the observed sociopolitical processes. A constant effort is request to the anthropologist working in the field to maintain an independent voice.

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FALCONIERI, Irene. Vivere, comprendere e agire la catastrofe. Antropologia Pubblica, [S.l.], v. 1, n. 1-2, p. 47 - 62, nov. 2017. ISSN 2531-8799. Available at: <https://www.riviste-clueb.online/index.php/anpub/article/view/86>. Date accessed: 29 mar. 2024. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1473/anpub.v1i1-2.86.
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Antropologia dei disastri a cura di Mara Benadusi