Sandrine Revet defends an ethnographic approach to disasters in order to understand, beyond the strict assessment, the effects of a disaster on public policies, but also and above all on the behaviors and beliefs of populations. In this interview, she questions the current revival of Disaster Studies and shows how they have been structured since the Second World War.
Sandrine Revet is a research fellow at Sciences-po. In his thesis published in 2007, Anthropology of a catastrophe. The 1999 mudslides in Venezuela (Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle), she looked at the social, political and cultural dynamics that emerged during a natural disaster in Venezuela in 1999. She is a member of the Disaster and Social Crisis Research Network, of the editorial board of the journals Cahiers des Amériques latines and Critique Internationale. Co-founder of the Association for Research on Disasters and Risks in Anthropology (ARCRA) she is also an associated researcher at the Political and Moral Sociology Group (EHESS).