Book Talk by Prof. Roberto E. Barrios
- Date
- Thursday 21 May 2026
- Time
- Address
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Wijnhaven
Turfmarkt 99
2511 DP The Hague - Room
- 3.46
On Thursday 21 May 2026 Professor Roberto E. Barrios, author of Governing Affect: Neoliberalism and Disaster Reconstruction (2017) is visiting the Institute of Security and Global Affairs to present his new co-edited book entitled A revelatory pandemic: crisis, agency and COVID in Latin America. We look forward to seeing you at the book talk!
Prof. Barrios is the Doris Zemurray Stone Chair of Latin American Studies and Professor at the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at the University of New Orleans.
Programme
- Welcome & introduction
- Book presentation by Prof. Barrios
- Q&A / discussion
- Closing
About the book
Since the mid 20th Century, anthropologists have approached crises as methodologically opportune moments that allow their beholders to recognize social structures and faultlines that are much harder to document in times of "normalcy." At the same time, social theorists have long thought of crises as upheavals laden with potential for transformative change. In this edited volume, anthropologists, sociologists, historians, journalists, and health care professionals working across Latin America discuss what the Pandemic revealed to them and their interlocutors and the socio-political changes experienced in the Pandemic's aftermath. Together, the chapters provide ample anthropological data for re-theorizing the relationship between crises, agency, and social change.
The book can be purchased online: https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/BarriosRevelatory.