Accepted Panels

Since 2020 the world has been engulfed a profound global disaster: the COVID-19 pandemic. It has affected people of every ilk in every nation. Much of what has unfolded reiterates the happenings in every catastrophe, except for one. In others, the effected people often congregate. With COVID-19, many people have been obliged to isolate and shelter in homes. Venturing has demanded face coverings and distancing with once attended venues shuttered. At the same time, people everywhere are dealing with climate change slowly creeping across the globe. It has brought rising waters, heat, desertification, crop loss, insects and often massive storms. The upshot is an interplay of double trouble and often contradictions of behaviors. People must individually guard against a virulent illness while as collectives they deal with environmental changes. Many are facing the duel ills in their original homes, but others find their only option despite risks is migration. The two, along with a new ferocious conflict, have brought on widespread famine, ensuing epidemics, more severe and frequent storms, displacement or still other crises. The enigma for anthropology is equally dual and more. On the one hand anthropology has always dealt with groups, but now must investigate the human sequestration. Yet time it must chronicle communities together adapting to habitat changes and accumulating other global crises. The effects on persons, cultures, and society are manifold: temporal, spatial, perceptual, and structural. They encompass work, expectation, sustenance, and celebration, fear, banality, and grief along with other aspects of disasters, politics, economics, disparities, contestation, and colonization. This panel addresses the interplay of multiple crisis and how it impacts anthropological practices and research. Although we are looking for a worldwide coverage, papers coming from or about Latin America are more than welcome.