Anthropology and environmental health: risk and vulnerability in the relationship between health, natura, society

ANDREA MASTRANGELO; JEAN SEGATA; BERNARDO LEWGOY

Florianópolis

Congreso; 18th International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences; 2018

IUAES

Sanitary and environmental emergencies have gathered the attention of anthropology. Vector diseases and zoonoses such as Leishmaniasis, American Trypanosomiasis, Dengue, Yellow Fever, Zika, Chikungunya, Malaria and Influenza, or epidemics, pandemics, disasters and environmental and food contamination are some of the situations that are in the focus of state health department actions for the control, prevention or surveillance of humans, animals, artifacts and environments. The interface with health allows us to address dense complexities between humans and nonhumans, intermediated by different actors such as mosquitoes, poisons, traps, antibiotics, transgenic, vaccines among others, as well as diagnostic models, campaigns and actions of prevention, control and combat. The anthropological attention to the articulation between human, animal and environmental health allows analyzes that cross and embroil national-state domains, international borders, economics, rights and moralities, from different fields of interest such as biopolitics and micro biopolitics, human-animal and multispecies relations, indigenous ethnology, global health, science anthropology or new digital technologies. In that way, this panel is inscribed in an intersection between different thematic axes that deal with contemporary and future issues for ethnography and anthropological theory like environment, risk and disaster, medical and health anthropology