ANTH 2100 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Bhopal Disaster, Solar Cooker, Carpal Tunnel

• School: University of Iowa
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 2100
• Professor: Buch Elana

Document Summary

Disaster: social construct mobilizes an immediate response to help individuals. Naturalizaion: deining something as natural, essenial, not the product of social arrangements. Consequence= diiculty to insitute plans or policies to prevent those things- hides human causes to these problems. Context shapes disaster: pre-exising condiions may afect how society views disasters or whether they are disasters at all varying economic impact of disasters. Economic inequality: social construct-capitalist, globalized (regional cultures are linked) Neoliberalism: the poliical/economic strategy of privaizing, deregulaing individual responsibility rather than naional. Disaster capitalism: private companies proit from disaster response/protecion and aim to replace state government funding. Economic apartheid: segregaion by economic class that shapes life outcomes (rich or poor/ saved or helpless) Technology: material soluions to social needs gendered, raced, and classed. Anthropology of science: scieniic facts are socially constructed. Social construcion of facts: blackboxing : claim is made, repeated and used, people forget the circumstances of its creaion, claim is now a fact.