The Management of Loss

损失管理

• 批准号: 463414529
• 负责人: Professorin Dr. Heike Drotbohm
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Institut für Ethnologie und Afrikastudien
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 资助国家: 德国
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/463414529?language=en
• 关键词: Management; Loss

Disasters such as the outbreak of a pandemic and the unforeseen collapse of an infrastructure have so far been investigated independently of one another in anthropology. Research was divided into various sub-disciplines such as disaster research, medical ethnology or the ethnology of infrastructures. This project proceeds differently. It focuses on the connections that arise when different types of crises occur in a specific local context and asks to what extent these events shape expectations of government action and the associated duties of care in a post-colonial and post-dictatorial context. In the small town of Brumadinho, in the state of Minas Gerais in southeastern Brazil, public and private reactions to the current corona pandemic complement and compete with another central and so far unresolved crisis: the collapse of the retention basin of an iron ore mine, which in January 2019 costed the lives of 270 people. The current situation in Brazil is understood as an opportunity to reflect on how successive exceptional situations relate to one another through different moral evaluations - of suffering, life and death as well as the right to receive state care. It investigates the reconfigurations of the moral economies that connect the state with its citizens and the living with the dead. The aim is an anthropological contribution to the theoretical understanding of the complementarity and the competition of different layers of time and meaning of disasters from different actors' perspectives.

迄今为止，人类学对大流行病的爆发和基础设施的意外崩溃等灾害的研究是相互独立的。研究分为各种分支学科，如灾害研究、医疗人种学或基础设施人种学。这个项目以不同的方式进行。它侧重于不同类型的危机发生时，在特定的地方背景下出现的连接，并询问在何种程度上这些事件塑造政府行动的期望和相关的照顾责任在后殖民和后独裁的背景下。在巴西东南部米纳斯吉拉斯州的布鲁马迪纽小镇，公众和私人对当前日冕大流行的反应与另一个迄今尚未解决的核心危机相辅相成，并与之竞争：2019年1月，一座铁矿的保留盆地倒塌，造成270人死亡。巴西目前的情况被认为是一个机会，可以通过对痛苦、生命和死亡以及接受国家照顾的权利的不同道德评价，反思连续的特殊情况如何相互关联。它探讨了道德经济的重新配置，将国家与公民以及生者与死者联系起来。其目的是从人类学的角度，从不同行为者的角度，对灾害的不同时间和意义层的互补性和竞争性的理论理解做出贡献。