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Elizabeth Roberts: 鈥楪rappling with lead in Mexico City鈥

17 November 2022, 5:00 pm鈥6:30 pm

Liz Roberts Grappling with lead mexico city

Elizabeth Roberts delivers the second seminar in the Embodied Inequalities of the Anthropocene series, hosted by CIESAS Mexico

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Embodied Inequalities of the Anthropocene

Elizabeth F.S. Roberts is a professor of anthropology at the University of Michigan, who investigates scientific and public health knowledge production and its embodied effects in Latin America and the United States. She currently collaborates with engineers and environmental health scientists in the United States and Mexico as part of two ongoing team-based projects in Mexico City that she directs:听鈥 and 鈥鈥 (NESTSMX). In these projects, she and her team trace the looping social, economic, biological, and technical processes that shape everyday life, health, and inequality in working class neighborhoods. One of the key aims of Professor Roberts鈥 current work is the development of bioethnography, a method that combines social and life sciences approaches in order to make better knowledge about health and inequality. Dr. Roberts is also the director of the Mexico鈥檚 Ethnographic Coding Lab where she trains undergraduates in qualitative coding methods using materials from her two multi-disciplinary collaborative projects in Mexico City.

Elizabeth Roberts: 鈥楲idiando con el plomo en Ciudad de M茅xico鈥

Elizabeth F.S. Roberts es profesora de antropolog铆a en la Universidad de Michigan e investiga la producci贸n de conocimientos cient铆ficos y de salud p煤blica y sus efectos incorporados en Am茅rica Latina y Estados Unidos. Actualmente colabora con ingenieros y cient铆ficos de la salud ambiental en Estados Unidos y M茅xico como parte de dos proyectos grupales que dirige en Ciudad de M茅xico: "Exposiciones mexicanas: Un enfoque bioetnogr谩fico de la salud y la desigualdad" y "Entornos vecinales como sistemas socio-tecnol贸gicos-biol贸gicos: Calidad del agua, confianza p煤blica y salud en la Ciudad de M茅xico" (NESTSMX). En estos proyectos, la Dra. Roberts junto con su equipo rastrea los procesos sociales, econ贸micos, biol贸gicos y t茅cnicos que conforman la vida cotidiana, la salud y la desigualdad en los barrios de clase trabajadora. Uno de los objetivos clave del trabajo de la profesora Roberts es el desarrollo de la bioetnograf铆a, un m茅todo que combina los enfoques de las ciencias sociales y de la vida con el fin de mejorar el conocimiento sobre la salud y la desigualdad. La Dra. Roberts es tambi茅n directora del Laboratorio de Codificaci贸n Etnogr谩fica de M茅xico, donde forma a estudiantes de pregrado en m茅todos de codificaci贸n cualitativa utilizando materiales de sus dos proyectos colaborativos multidisciplinarios en Ciudad de M茅xico.

罢丑别听Embodied Inequalities of the Anthropocene(collaboration between UFRGS Brazil, CIESAS Mexico and 果冻影院 in the UK) 听brings together environmental, indigenous, biosocial, multispecies, gender and theoretical expertise in Medical Anthropology, to extend interdisciplinary engagement concerning how the Anthropocene epoch impacts on human health. Our group aligns interest and expertise in diverse fields of inquiry relevant to the embodied inequalities of the Anthropocene including gender, justice and power, indigenous health, well-being and sustainability.

For more information, please contact Maria Paula Prates maria.prates@ucl.ac.uk

A Zoom link for the event will be circulated closer to the seminar date. Sign up is required.