It’s about Time
The Wildfire Ecologies of Contingent Research and Planning
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14835333 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Salvador Zárate (0000-0001-5391-6782) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 17-23 |
| Publication date | 2023-06-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Practicing Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0888-4552 • E-ISSN: 2994-1628 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.17730/0888-4552.45.3.17 |
| OpenAlex | W4384941193 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 13 |
This article is a reflection on doing wildfire research aimed at shaping public policy in Orange County, California, during the COVID-19 pandemic. Its focus is on the little-known efforts of fire mitigation by Latinx migrant workers. In this article, I discuss how the COVID-19 pandemic made me shift research focus from seeking to understand how workers’ ecological knowledge might shape fire mitigation policy to a prioritization of workers’ precarious “essential labor” on the “front” front lines of fire prevention. I discuss how the temporalities of the pandemic, wildfire, and research played out across the labor terrain of the Southern California wildfire mitigation efforts and within my own applied research. Specifically, I discuss how COVID-19 university research “ramped down,” and stay-at-home orders prevented me from being embedded with workers in the county’s canyons, as I had planned, and how I had to learn to adjust my funded research. The outcome required doing applied research by letting go of continuity, by dwelling in disjointed COVID-19 temporalities that settled over the county’s flammable chaparral where essential labor serves as an extension of a failing settler colonial fire management practice that requires worker vulnerability to inoculate the lives of those living in the county’s wildfire risk regions
Brownfield · Chaparral · Environmental planning · Environmental resource management · Geography · Political science · Sociology · Temporalities · Vulnerability (computing · Disaster Management and Resilience · Environmental Science · Fire effects on ecosystems · Ecology
Unequal Freedom
Orange County, California Covid-19 Vaccine Equity Best Practices Checklist
Imagining an Ethnographic Otherwise During a Pandemic
Tending the Wild
Pollution Is Colonialism
Settler colonialism and the elimination of the native
Life-Times in Fate Playing
Wildfires at the Edges of Science
A new form of collaboration in cultural anthropology
Against Methodological Essentialism, Fragmentation, and Instrumentalism in Times of Covid-19
| Highly cited | No |
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