Debora Swistun
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 135362 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Debora Swistun |
| NOMBRES | Debora |
| APELLIDO | Swistun |
| FIRMA | SWISTUN D |
| AFILIACIONES | Universidad Nacional de La Plata |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 6 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 149 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 6 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2007 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Latin American perspectives on slow disasters
Purpose This forum article discusses the concept of slow disasters from Latin America, presenting different perspectives and experiences of practical research using this notion. It discusses the extent to which a focus on the “slow” temporality of disasters advances our understanding of socio-environmental processes in the region. Design/methodology/approach The article emerges from a pilot project to explore the relevance of temporality to analy…
Hacia una Antropología del Antropoceno
Expuestos y confundidos. Un relato etnográfico sobre sufrimiento ambiental
concluye con una espe
Tiresias in Flammable Shantytown
Based on 30 months of ethnographic fieldwork in Flammable shantytown, a highly contaminated poor barrio in Argentina, this article examines the links between environmental suffering, social domination, and collective perceptions of time. We show that the ways residents think and feel about (and cope with) pollution are deeply entangled with their perceptions of the past and of the future. We thus argue that an ethnographic account of the lived ex…
The Social Production of Toxic Uncertainty
Based on both archival research and two and a half years of ethnographic fieldwork in an Argentine shantytown with high levels of air, water, and ground contamination, this article examines the social production of environmental uncertainty. First, we dissect residents' perceptions of contamination, finding widespread doubts and mistakes about the polluted habitat. Second, we provide a sociologically informed account of uncertainty and the errone…
Confused because exposed
Based on long-term collaborative ethnographic fieldwork in a shantytown called Flammable (real name) located in Argentina, this article examines residents' perceptions of their highly polluted surroundings. Using a case study to explore the relationship between objective space and subjective representations (habitat and habitus), the article a) describes the widespread confusion that dominates shantytown dwellers' views of contamination, and b) a…
The Social Production of Toxic Uncertainty
Based on both archival research and two and a half years of ethnographic fieldwork in an Argentine shantytown with high levels of air, water, and ground contamination, this article examines the social production of environmental uncertainty. First, we dissect residents' perceptions of contamination, finding widespread doubts and mistakes about the polluted habitat. Second, we provide a sociologically informed account of uncertainty and the errone…
Confused because exposed
Based on long-term collaborative ethnographic fieldwork in a shantytown called Flammable (real name) located in Argentina, this article examines residents' perceptions of their highly polluted surroundings. Using a case study to explore the relationship between objective space and subjective representations (habitat and habitus), the article a) describes the widespread confusion that dominates shantytown dwellers' views of contamination, and b) a…
Tiresias in Flammable Shantytown
Based on 30 months of ethnographic fieldwork in Flammable shantytown, a highly contaminated poor barrio in Argentina, this article examines the links between environmental suffering, social domination, and collective perceptions of time. We show that the ways residents think and feel about (and cope with) pollution are deeply entangled with their perceptions of the past and of the future. We thus argue that an ethnographic account of the lived ex…
Expuestos y confundidos. Un relato etnográfico sobre sufrimiento ambiental
concluye con una espe
Confused because exposed
Based on long-term collaborative ethnographic fieldwork in a shantytown called Flammable (real name) located in Argentina, this article examines residents' perceptions of their highly polluted surroundings. Using a case study to explore the relationship between objective space and subjective representations (habitat and habitus), the article a) describes the widespread confusion that dominates shantytown dwellers' views of contamination, and b) a…
The Social Production of Toxic Uncertainty
Based on both archival research and two and a half years of ethnographic fieldwork in an Argentine shantytown with high levels of air, water, and ground contamination, this article examines the social production of environmental uncertainty. First, we dissect residents' perceptions of contamination, finding widespread doubts and mistakes about the polluted habitat. Second, we provide a sociologically informed account of uncertainty and the errone…
Tiresias in Flammable Shantytown
Based on 30 months of ethnographic fieldwork in Flammable shantytown, a highly contaminated poor barrio in Argentina, this article examines the links between environmental suffering, social domination, and collective perceptions of time. We show that the ways residents think and feel about (and cope with) pollution are deeply entangled with their perceptions of the past and of the future. We thus argue that an ethnographic account of the lived ex…
Expuestos y confundidos. Un relato etnográfico sobre sufrimiento ambiental
concluye con una espe
Latin American perspectives on slow disasters
Purpose This forum article discusses the concept of slow disasters from Latin America, presenting different perspectives and experiences of practical research using this notion. It discusses the extent to which a focus on the “slow” temporality of disasters advances our understanding of socio-environmental processes in the region. Design/methodology/approach The article emerges from a pilot project to explore the relevance of temporality to analy…
Hacia una Antropología del Antropoceno
Environmental Justice and Health Disparities (3 obras) · Sociology (3 obras) · Anthropology (2 obras) · Art (2 obras) · Confusion (2 obras) · Ethnography (2 obras) · Flammable liquid (2 obras) · Gender Studies (2 obras) · Gender Studies (2 obras) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (2 obras)