Dr Anu Sabhlok

Social Issues

ethnographic fieldwork on disaster relief reveals relief work and relief sites (camps) as spaces where subjectivities are dismantled, reproduced, and reconstructed; where international aid and local politics intersect; and where numerous discourses surrounding disasters and developments circulate and find roots. The idea is to go beyond a purely economic analysis of disaster relief and take the vulnerability analysis a step further to understand disasters and relief as socio-cultural and politic