The Management of Loss

迄今为止，在人类学中，诸如流行病的爆发和基础设施的不可预见的崩溃等灾害都是相互独立的。研究分为不同的分支学科，如灾害研究、医学民族学或基础设施民族学。这个项目的进行方式不同。它侧重于不同类型的危机在特定的地方背景下发生时产生的联系，并询问这些事件在多大程度上塑造了在后殖民和后独裁背景下对政府行动的期望以及相关的照顾义务。在巴西东南部米纳斯吉拉斯州的小镇布鲁马迪尼奥，公众和私人对当前冠状病毒大流行的反应与另一场迄今尚未解决的中心危机相辅相成，相互竞争：2019年1月，一座铁矿的保留盆地坍塌，造成270人死亡。巴西目前的情况被认为是一个机会，可以通过不同的道德评价————对痛苦、生与死以及接受国家照顾的权利————来思考接连不断的特殊情况是如何相互联系的。它调查了将国家与公民、生者与死者联系起来的道德经济的重新配置。其目的是从人类学的角度，从不同行为者的角度，对灾难的不同时间层次和意义的互补性和竞争性的理论理解作出贡献。

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.