Research
Involuntary Resettlement
Disaster
Books and Publications
He has authored, edited or co-edited 8 books and over 70 journal articles and book chapters.
Anthony Oliver-Smith - Anthropologist
Anthony Oliver-Smith is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Florida. He is also affiliated with the Center for Latin American Studies and the School of Natural Resources and Environment at that institution. He has held the Greenleaf Chair of Latin American Studies at the Stone Center for Latin American Studies at Tulane University(2008) and the Munich Re Foundation Chair on Social Vulnerability at the United Nations University Institute on Environment and Human Security in Bonn, Germany(2007). He has been awarded the Bronislaw Malinowski Award of the Society for Applied Anthropology for 2013 for his lifetime achievement and work in disaster studies and resettlement research. He has done anthropological research and consultation on issues relating to disasters and involuntary resettlement in Peru, Honduras, India, Brazil, Jamaica, Mexico, Japan, and the United States. He has served on the executive boards of the National Association of Practicing Anthropologists and the Society for Applied Anthropology and on the Social Sciences Committee of the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute. He is also a member of La Red de Estudios Sociales en Prevención de Desastres en America Latina and is on the editorial boards of Environmental Disasters, the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction and Desastres y Sociedad. He is currently a member of the scientific committee on Integrated Research on Disaster Risk of the International Council for Science and the Climate Change Task Force of the American Anthropological Association.
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PUBLICATIONS
Anthropology and the Political Economy of Disasters
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Applied Anthropology and Development-Induced Displacement and Resettlement
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Disaster, Displacement, and Employment
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Theorizing Disasters. Nature, power, and culture
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Communities after Catastrophe
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Conversations in Catastrophe
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Lima, Peru: Underdevelopment and vulnerability to hazards in the city of the kings
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Displacement, Resistance and the Critique of Development: From the Grass Roots to the Global
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Environmental Migration. Nature, Society and population
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Evicted from Eden
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Climate Change and Population Displacement: Disasters and Diasporas in the twenty-first Century
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Haiti's 500-Year Earthquake
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Involuntary Resettlement, Resistance & Political Empowerment
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Perú's Five-Hundred-Year Earthquake: Vulnerability in Historical Context
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Post-Disaster Housing Reconstruction and Social Inequality: A Challenge to Policy and Practice
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Resistance to Resettlement: The formation and evolution of movements
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Initiatives for safer housing in Jamaica - an overview
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Successes and Failures in Post-Disaster Resettlement
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What is a Disaster. Anthropological Perspectives on a Persistent Question
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Theorizing Vulnerability in a Globalized World
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Understanding Impoverishment Fighting for a Place
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Presentations
Recent Keynote Lectures and Presentations
2015 Los Desastres, el desplazamiento y el reto del reasentamiento. Segundo encuentro internacional de familias en alto riesgo, International Organization for Migration (IOM)- Instituto Distrital de Gestion de Riesgos y Cambio Climatico (IDIGER) -Consultoria para los Derechos Humanos y el Desplazamiento (CODHES) Bogota, November 5.
2015 Environmental Change and Community Displacement: Resettlement Challenges in Gunayala. Invited Lecture, Department of Anthropology, Colorado State University. October 16.
2015 Non-Economic Loss and Damage (NELD) in Climate Change: An overview of the knowledge base to date. Keynote Lecture at the workshops Non-Economic Loss and Damage – What is it and why does it matter?
German Development Institute, August 26-28
2015 El Cambio climático, el desplazamiento de poblaciones y el proceso de reasentamiento, Two workshops held in Gardi Sugdub, Gunayala, Panama (April 14) and the Panamanian Ministry of Environment and Centro de Incidencia Ambiental (CIAM), April 16.
2012 “Risk, Society and Culture,” Plenary Address at the Global Risk Forum, October 28. Davos, Switzerland.
2012 “Climate and Migration: Anthropological Perspectives,” presentation in the panel entitled “Climates of Migration,” Global Risk Forum, October 29. Davos, Switzerland.
2012 “Social Vulnerability, Climate Change and Development: A Matter of Choice?” Keynote Address at the Capstone Conference of the Munich Re Foundation-United Nations University Institute on Environment and Human Security, October 8. Bonn, Germany.
2011 “Defining Disasters: Key Concepts and Their Complexities,” Symposium on Disaster Research, Yale University, October 19.
2011 "Disaster Induced Displacement and Resettlement: An Additional Challenge of Climate Change," Keynote address as the symposium Populations at Risk of Disaster: Preventive Resettlement as a Disaster Risk Reduction Measure, World Bank, September 14.
2011 "Environmental Migrants? Nature Society and Population Displacement in the 21st Century,"
Keynote lecture at the Symposium entitled "Climates of Migration" at the Rachel Carson Center,
Munich, Germany, August 5.
2011 "Conversations in Catastrophe: The Cultural Framing of Disaster Processes," Keynote lecture at the workshop entitled Cultures and Disasters at Bielefeld University, Germany July 6.
2011 "Rethinking the Angry Earth: The Paths to Vulnerability and Resilience," Keynote lecture at the symposium entitled Disasters, Knowledge, Ethics UNESCO headquarters , Paris, France July 4
2010 "21st Century Risk, Vulnerability and Disaster: Anthropological Perspectives," Keynote lecture at the symposium entitled Catastrophes et risques: de l'empirique a la critique at the Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Internationales, of Science Po CNRS, Paris, France, June 18.
2010 "Questions We Need to Ask Ourselves about Climate Change, Poverty and Environmental Justice," at the University of Tennessee Distinguished Lecture series on Human Rights, Disasters and Development, April 14,, Knoxville, Tennessee.
2009-“Out of Place: Mapping the Terrain for a Unified Theory of Involuntary Migration and Resettlement,” Keynote Lecture at the conference entitled The Role of the State in Population Movements: The Circumpolar North and Other Regions. Rovaniemi, Finland. October 26.
2009-“Climate Change and Sea Level Rise: Challenges and Adaptations for Local Communities” Invited Lecture at the conference entitled The Great Transformation: Climate Change as Cultural Change. Essen, Germany, June 10
Workshops and Guest Lectures
Forensic Investigations of Disaster
Mass Relocation
Culture and Disaster
The Political Ecology of Disasters
Disasters and Population Displacement
Vulnerability Analysis
Post Disaster Reconstruction and Recovery
Climate Change, Displacement and Resettlement
Climate, Displacement and Migration
Adaptation to Climate Change
Crisis, Change and Human Survival
Environmental Disruption and Cultural Responses
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