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SUMMARY: Reimagining solidarity and resilience in a disastrous world: the m
 igrante struggle for belonging in post-Katrina New Orleans
DESCRIPTION: The Centre for Climate Justice is thrilled to be co-sponsoring
  this event with the Disaster Resilience Research Network: We are thrilled 
 to host Dr. Roberto Barrios\, an expert in disaster anthropology\, for a co
 mpelling talk at UBC that delves into the complex intersections of crisis\,
  migration\, solidarity\, and resilience. Drawing on his extensive research
  across […]
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: <p><em>The Centre for Climate Justice is thri
 lled to be co-sponsoring this event with the <a href="https://drrn.ubc.ca">
 Disaster Resilience Research Network</a>:</em></p><p>We are thrilled to hos
 t Dr. Roberto Barrios\, an expert in disaster anthropology\, for a compelli
 ng talk at UBC that delves into the complex intersections of crisis\, migra
 tion\, solidarity\, and resilience. Drawing on his extensive research acros
 s Latin America and the United States\, Dr. Barrios will offer thought-prov
 oking insights into how disasters reveal hidden social structures and how m
 arginalized communities navigate their aftermath<span lang="FA">.</span></p
 ><p>The featured talk focuses on post-Katrina New Orleans\, where he traces
  the struggles and resilience of Central American migrants who played a key
  role in the city's recovery\, only to become disaster survivors themselves
 . It invites us to rethink crisis\, solidarity\, and the possibilities for 
 transformative social change in a world increasingly shaped by transnationa
 l risks.</p><p class="text-align-justify"><strong>About Dr. Roberto Barrios
 </strong><span lang="FA"><strong>:</strong></span></p><p><img class=" wp-im
 age-16839 alignleft" src="https://cfcj.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/s
 ites/45/2024/09/Barrios_roberto.jpg" alt="" width="209" height="209" />Dr. 
 Roberto E. Barrios is Professor of Anthropology\, the Doris Zemurray Stone 
 Chair of Latin American Studies\, and the Director of the Center for Latin 
 American Studies at the University of New Orleans<span lang="FA">.</span> H
 e has conducted research in Central America\, Mexico\, and the United State
 s for the last 25 years. His work has focused on transnational migration\, 
 forced displacement\, and disaster prevention and recovery. Since 2013\, he
  has worked closely with the Center for Research and Graduate Studies in So
 cial Anthropology (CIESAS) in Mexico City\, and he has extensive experience
  directing undergraduate and graduate research projects in Latin America.</
 p><p>This talk is being hosted by DRRN and the UBC <a href="https://anth.ub
 c.ca/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Department of Ant
 hropology</a> in collaboration with the <a href="https://climatejustice.ubc
 .ca/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Centre for Climate
  Justice</a>\, <a href="https://publichumanities.ubc.ca/" target="_blank" r
 el="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Public Humanities Hub</a>\, the <a href="
 https://civil.ubc.ca/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">D
 epartment of Civil Engineering</a>\, and the <a href="https://sppga.ubc.ca/
 " target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">School of Public Polic
 y & Global Affairs</a>.</p><p>Refreshments will be provided. Please RSVP us
 ing the link below.</p><h2 class="text-align-justify text-lead text-ubc-blu
 e-sea"><strong>Featured Talk: </strong></h2><h2 class="text-align-justify t
 ext-lead text-ubc-blue-sea"><strong>Reimagining solidarity and resilience i
 n a disastrous world: the </strong><em><strong>migrante </strong></em><stro
 ng>struggle for belonging in post-Katrina New Orleans</strong></h2><p class
 ="text-align-justify"><strong>Time & Location:</strong><br />Thursday\, Oct
  3\, 2024 | 5:30pm-7:00pm<br />1855 West Mall\, CK Choi Building\, Room 120
 </p><p class="text-align-justify">[buttons][button link_text="RSVP" link_ur
 l="https://ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9HaBHZwHo8wFiES"][/buttons]</p
 ><p><strong>Abstract:</strong><br />Nearly fifty years ago\, Ulrich Beck ch
 allenged the public at large to imagine new kinds of solidarity that cut ac
 ross lines of class and nation in the face of risks engendered by moderniza
 tion and “development\,” especially considering the capacity of emerging ri
 sks to move across national borders\, bringing a new level of complication 
 to matters of environmental justice. At the end of the first quarter of the
  21st Century\, Central America is the subtropical area expected to be most
  affected by the effects of anthropogenic climate change\, a transnational 
 risk largely engendered by the Global North. In the last quarter century\, 
 drought\, hurricanes\, and floods have joined profound socio-economic inequ
 ities dating to the colonial period\, post-colonial political culture\, all
 iances between national elites and the US State Department\, the long term 
 impacts of Cold War civil conflicts and military interventions\, and struct
 ural adjustment and neoliberal models as the root causes of informal migrat
 ion from Central America to the United States. When Hurricane Katrina struc
 k New Orleans in 2005\, the US State Department lifted labor restrictions b
 arring reconstruction contractors from hiring informal migrants – most of t
 hem Central American – and it is estimated they comprised at least 35% of t
 he recovery labor force. Nearly twenty years later\, many of these post-Kat
 rina reconstruction workers have made the Greater New Orleans area their ho
 me but many have not been able to formalize their immigration status. To fu
 rther complicate things\, they have also experienced a transition from reco
 very workforce to disaster survivors themselves as New Orleans continues to
  confront hurricanes and the COVID 19 pandemic.</p><p>This presentation exp
 lores the challenges\, struggles\, and victories of informal migrants as th
 ey attempt to assert their rights and make New Orleans their home despite g
 rowing anti-immigrant sentiment. The presentation explores the discursive a
 nd direct-action strategies employed by migrantes – as they often call them
 selves – and their efficacy for defining a place for themselves and\, in th
 e process\, redefining the social fault lines of solidarity in a world of i
 ncreasingly transnational disaster risks and migration forces. The presenta
 tion also considers how such efforts connect with critical understandings o
 f resilience and how affective themes intersect with migrante challenges to
  state-defined categories of national belonging and rights claims\, urging 
 the US public to imagine new forms of citizenship.</p><p> </p><h4><em>If yo
 u're interested\, there's an additional event happening earlier on Thursday
  that we encourage you to attend. Dr. Barrios will explore the COVID-19 pan
 demic through the lens of disaster social science\, examining how crises ca
 n expose societal fault lines and challenge Eurocentric ideas of transforma
 tion and change:</em></h4><h2 class="text-lead text-ubc-blue-sea"><strong>A
  Revelatory Pandemic? COVID-19 and Disaster Social Science</strong></h2><p 
 class="text-align-justify"><strong>Time & Location:</strong><br />Thursday\
 , Oct 3\, 2024 | 12:30pm-2:00pm<br />6303 NW Marine Drive\, Anthropology & 
 Sociology Building (ANSO)\, Room 134</p><p class="text-align-justify">[butt
 ons][button link_text="RSVP" link_url="https://anth.ubc.ca/events/event/dr-
 roberto-barrios-a-revelatory-pandemic/"][/buttons]</p><p><strong>Abstract: 
 </strong><br />Since the mid 20th Century\, cultural anthropologists have t
 hought of crises as methodologically opportune moments that allow social sc
 ientists to see social structures and fault lines that are much harder to d
 ocument in times of “normalcy.” Others have connected the idea of the revel
 atory crisis to older Eurocentric meanings of crisis as a moment full of po
 tential for social transformation that separates neatly defined epochs. Dur
 ing the onset of the COVID 19 pandemic public scholars and social commentat
 ors referenced the idea of crisis as a revelatory event pregnant with trans
 formative potential to imagine the global health disaster as a moment of re
 ckoning that could mark the end of neoliberalism. But anthropological treat
 ment of crisis as a revelatory event has fallen short of considering the ep
 istemological diversity of the beholders of crises and has also verged on t
 heorizing the relationship between crisis and change as a purely mechanical
  one that all but removes human agency from the process.</p><p>Using ten pa
 ndemic case studies from across Latin America\, this presentation explores 
 how a focus on crisis in the Global South stands to correct the temporal an
 d historiographic Eurocentrisms of crisis theory and beckons us to re-imagi
 ne the relationship between crisis\, subjectivity\, agency\, and transforma
 tive social change.</p>
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