Revelatory Pandemic

Roberto E. Barrios is Professor of Anthropology and Doris Zemurray Stone Chair of Latin American Studies at the University of New Orleans. He has conducted research on disaster recovery and mitigation in Central America, Mexico, and the United States and is author of Governing Affect: Neoliberalism and Disaster Reconstruction (2017, University of Nebraska Press) and co-editor of, Disaster Upon Disaster, with Susanna Hoffman (2022, Berghahn).

“This book deals with an interesting subject and chain of events triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic. Its main value is the editors’ attempt to conceptualize crises in Latin America, while connecting this notion with other concepts such as risk and disasters.” • Gonzalo Lizarralde, Université de Montréal“This is an excellent book that critically examines how the pandemic was produced, contested, and experienced by differently situated groups and subjects throughout Latin America.” • A.J. Faas, San José State University

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsForewordKim FortunIntroduction: Crisis without Guarantee and the Social Science of Pandemics and DisastersRoberto E. Barrios and Virginia García-AcostaPart I: A Pandemic Where Crisis is the NormChapter 1. Uncertain Futures, Wavering Hopes: Crisis, Pandemic, and Expectations around the COVID-19 Vaccination Process in ArgentinaSergio E. Visacovsky and Gabriel NoelChapter 2. Fear as Luxury: The Intersection of COVID-19 Policies and Violence in El SalvadorNorbert RossChapter 3. The Pandemic in a Disastrous Context: COVID-19 Conjuncture and Post-Earthquake Conditions in Morelos, MexicoMaría N. Rodríguez AlarcónPart II: Pandemic Governance in the Post-ColonyChapter 4. Responsive Scholarship and COVID-19 in Southern Ecuador: Exhaustion, Ethnographic Collaborations,and VulnerabilityMaka Suárez and Fu Yu ChangChapter 5. Resisting Necropolitics: Mutual Aid and Grassroots Responses to the COVID-10 Syndemic in BrazilVictor Marchezini , Marcos Rodrigo Maciel Ferreira and Fernando SeveroChapter 6. The Pandemic Crisis Reveals Indicators of DRM in the Strategy against the Disaster in MexicoRaymundo Padilla LozoyaChapter 7. Dis/Connections in the Argentinean Interior: (Im)Mobility and Morality in Times of PandemicSusann Baez Ullberg and Diego ZenobiPart III: A Transnational PandemicChapter 8. “We Don’t Have That Freedom”: Labor, Stress, and the Racial Capitalism of Agriculture at the Advent of COVIDClaire Branigan, Jessica F. Brinkworth, Korinta Maldonado, Ellen Moodie, and Gilberto RosasChapter 9. The SARS COVID-19 Pandemic: A Critical Moment of Vulnerability in Guatemalan MigrationsAlfredo Danilo RiveraChapter 10. Collective Reasoning When Plunder is the Established Ethos: The COVID-19 Pandemic in Honduras and the Epistemological Basis of Social DisasterGustavo Peña-FloresConclusion: A Pandemic’s RevelationsRoberto E. Barrios and Virginia García-Acosta