Disasters and Neoliberalism Different Expressions of Social Vulnerability

Gabriela Vera-Cortés is a teacher and researcher at the Department of Society and Culture, El Colegio de la Frontera Sur (Ecosur), Villahermosa, Mexico. She holds a a bachelor’s degree in Geography from the the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), a master’s degree and a PhD in Anthropological Sciences from the Autonomous Metropolitan University (UAM), Mexico. She has worked as a teacher at the College of Geography of the UNAM and as a researcher at the Center of Research and Advanced Studies in Social Anthropology (Ciesas-Golfo). She is the author of more than 35 titles amongst books, chapters of books, and articles. Her research projects are focused on Anthropology of risk and social vulnerability to disasters. She is a member of the Mexican National Researchers System L-I.

Jesús Manuel Macias-Medrano holds a  PhD in Geography and is a Full Time Researcher at the Center for Research and Advanced Studiesin Social Anthropology (CIESAS) in Mexico City. He is member of the Mexican National Researchers System L-II.  He has authored more than 170 works (books, articles) related to disaster and risk issues, most on Mexico. He is one of the founders of the Latin American Network for Social Studies and Disaster Prevention (La Red), and is former chair of the Advisory Committee on Social Sciences of the National Civil Protection System in Mexico. He is a member of the International Research Committee on Disasters of the International Sociological Association.