A fire, a flood. Crises, experts, and translations between modes of knowledge
In this article, we examine the relationship between the various modes of knowledge that come into play during crises, giving rise to new ways of understanding and acting in these contexts. We analyse how, during two crises separated in time and space, the modes of expert knowledge involved were tra...
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Instituto de Ciencias Antropológicas, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, UBA
2025
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/CAS/article/view/17734 |
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| Sumario: | In this article, we examine the relationship between the various modes of knowledge that come into play during crises, giving rise to new ways of understanding and acting in these contexts. We analyse how, during two crises separated in time and space, the modes of expert knowledge involved were translated into different value systems and expressed, for example, in artistic forms, architectural expressions and street performances. The crises relate, on the one hand, to floods that occurred in the province of Córdoba, Argentina, in 2015, known as the 15F catastrophe; on the other hand, to a fire that occurred in the city of Buenos Aires in 2004, known as the Cromañón tragedy. We also analyse how the modes of knowledge produced by the victims and those affected were translated into modes of expert knowledge related to sciences such as psychiatry, psychology, biology, and engineering. As a contribution to the field of crisis studies and forms of knowledge, the analysis that emerges from comparing these translation movements reveals that the knowledge brought into play by expert professionals is necessary, but not sufficient, to understand the ways in which societies deal with situations of rupture, trauma, and dislocation from everyday “normality.” |
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