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DESCRIPTION:Moynihan Institute of Global AffairsSouth Asia Center presentsE
 lizabeth BittelAssistant Professor&nbsp\;Department of SociologySUNY Cortl
 andVisit Rural Lanka: Re-Making Home on Shifting Sands\n\n\n \n  \n  Dr. B
 ittel explores the multidimensional processes at play\n  in complex humani
 tarian emergencies that produce disparate long-term recovery\n  outcomes i
 n Sri Lankan communities as they recover(ed) from the 2004 Indian\n  Ocean
  Tsunami and Sri Lankan civil war. This talk focuses specifically on the\n
   rapid rise of the tourism economy in Sri Lanka’s Eastern Province\, to i
 nterrogate\n  how recovery and tourism development co-occur and highlight 
 the implications\n  for socio-cultural structures as communities work to i
 ntegrate tourism into\n  already-vulnerable social systems. Elizabeth will
  provide a brief presentation of her research\n  findings\, and then works
 hop ideas and questions for conducting long term ethnographic\n  research 
 in light of ongoing\, co-occurring disasters in Sri Lanka including\n  the
  the 2019 Easter Day terrorist attacks in Sri Lanka which was the most\n  
 violent attack on civilians following the end of the war in 2009 and broug
 ht tragedy to both field sites\, the global COVID-19 pandemic and associat
 ed\n  travel restrictions\, and political uprisings. Central themes guidin
 g the conversation will include how\n  to ethically and logistically condu
 ct long-term ethnographic research in communities\n  as they experience in
 tersecting\, chronic disasters.\nThis talk is part of the Sustainable Sout
 h Asia Initiative.  &nbsp\;Co-sponsored by the Moynihan Transboundary Cris
 is Management GroupRegister Here!For more information or to request access
 ibility arrangements\, please contact Emera Bridger Wilson\, elbridge@syr.
 edu.
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SUMMARY:Virtual: Visit Rural Lanka: Re-Making Home on Shifting Sands
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p>Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs</p><p>
 South Asia Center presents</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Elizabeth Bittel</stro
 ng></p><p>Assistant Professor&nbsp\;Department of Sociology</p><p>SUNY Cor
 tland</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Visit Rural Lanka: Re-Making Home on Shifti
 ng Sands</strong></p><p>\n\n</p><p>\n \n  \n  Dr. Bittel explores the mult
 idimensional processes at play\n  in complex humanitarian emergencies that
  produce disparate long-term recovery\n  outcomes in Sri Lankan communitie
 s as they recover(ed) from the 2004 Indian\n  Ocean Tsunami and Sri Lankan
  civil war. This talk focuses specifically on the\n  rapid rise of the tou
 rism economy in Sri Lanka’s Eastern Province\, to interrogate\n  how recov
 ery and tourism development co-occur and highlight the implications\n  for
  socio-cultural structures as communities work to integrate tourism into\n
   already-vulnerable social systems. Elizabeth will provide a brief presen
 tation of her research\n  findings\, and then workshop ideas and questions
  for conducting long term ethnographic\n  research in light of ongoing\, c
 o-occurring disasters in Sri Lanka including\n  the the 2019 Easter Day te
 rrorist attacks in Sri Lanka which was the most\n  violent attack on civil
 ians following the end of the war in 2009 and brought tragedy to both fiel
 d sites\, the global COVID-19 pandemic and associated\n  travel restrictio
 ns\, and political uprisings. Central themes guiding the conversation will
  include how\n  to ethically and logistically conduct long-term ethnograph
 ic research in communities\n  as they experience intersecting\, chronic di
 sasters.\n</p><p><br></p><p>This talk is part of the Sustainable South Asi
 a Initiative.  &nbsp\;</p><p><br></p><p>Co-sponsored by the Moynihan Trans
 boundary Crisis Management Group</p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://syracus
 euniversity.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIvdOGqrTIuGdM55AZab8qMFqFkkt9ys98Y 
 " title="Register Here">Register Here</a>!</p><p><br></p><p>For more infor
 mation or to request accessibility arrangements\, please contact Emera Bri
 dger Wilson\, elbridge@syr.edu.</p>
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