Disasters, a Prism for Looking at the Ordinary World. Interview with Sandrine Revet

This interview by Cyril Isnart and Christian Hottin with anthropologist Sandrine Revet was originally published in French in the journal In Situ in March 2024. The interview offers an account of the history and epistemological issues of this particular field of anthropological study. Looking back on her own career, Sandrine Revet describes the twists and turns of the intellectual work in progress, which takes disasters as an object of study for the social sciences, analysing their impact and consequences in the specific social and historical context in which the disaster occurs.

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