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COVID-19

Black Women Who Move Mountains: Responding to Crisis in Rio de Janeiro’s Complexo do Alemão

September 27, 2022

By ANA CAROLINA ASSUMPÇÃO Ler em português IN TIMES OF CRISIS, people come together for mutual support. This has not changed since the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic. All over the world, people have worked together to mitigate the impact of the virus on society despite the fear of … [Read more...] about Black Women Who Move Mountains: Responding to Crisis in Rio de Janeiro’s Complexo do Alemão

Tagged With: Black women, Camila Santos, Complexo do Alemão, COVID-19, favelas, Lana de Souza, LLILAS, Papo Reto, Renata Trajano, Rio de Janeiro

To the Reader

September 3, 2021

ON FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 2020, The University of Texas at Austin announced that it was canceling classes and closing the campus due to community spread of COVID-19. From that day forward, members of the LLILAS Benson community began to figure out how we would live, work, support our loved ones, shop for … [Read more...] about To the Reader

Tagged With: Adela Pineda Franco, Benson Centennial, COVID-19, Javier Auyero, LLILAS Benson, Melissa Guy, Olmec head, Susanna Sharpe, University of Texas at Austin

The Pandemic at the Urban Margins: COVID-19 and Networks of Support in Buenos Aires

September 3, 2021

BY SOFÍA SERVIAN AND JAVIER AUYERO HOW DO THE URBAN POOR SURVIVE? Roughly half a century ago, anthropologist Larissa Lomnitz conducted fieldwork in Cerrada del Condor, a shantytown of about 200 houses in Mexico City, to answer just that question. The outcome of that field research was the … [Read more...] about The Pandemic at the Urban Margins: COVID-19 and Networks of Support in Buenos Aires

Tagged With: Buenos Aires, COVID-19, Javier Auyero, La Matera, Larissa Lomnitz, marginados, pandemic, Sofía Servian

In Memoriam: Manuel Tahay

September 3, 2021

Leer en español BY SERGIO ROMERO & SUSANNA SHARPE LLILAS BENSON MOURNS the death of our beloved colleague and friend Manuel de Jesús Tahay Gómez, aka Tat Wel, who died of COVID-19 in Guatemala on August 14. He was 61. A revered educator and scholar of the Maya K’iche’ language and … [Read more...] about In Memoriam: Manuel Tahay

Tagged With: COERLL, COVID-19, Indigenous Issues, Indigenous languages, K'iche', K'iche' Maya, LLILAS, Manuel Tahay, Tat Wel

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