Jean Segata

Jean Segata is a social anthropologist who specialises in multispecies health, epidemics, and biosecurity interventions. He has extensive experience conducting fieldwork and developing research collaborations across Latin America, primarily in Brazil. He currently serves as an Associate Professor at the Department of Anthropology at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS, Brazil), where he directs the Rede COVID-19 Humanidades MCTI, as well as the Centre for Multispecies Anthropology (NAM). He is also a CNPq Researcher (Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development).

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Introduction: Anthropological histories of COVID-19: The Romani case

Introduction: Anthropological histories of COVID-19: The Romani case


Part of a series discussing Romani Chronicles of Covid-19: Testimonies of Harm and Resilience, edited by Paloma Gay y Blasco and Martin Fotta (Berghahn: New York and Oxford, 2023). Anthropological histories of the COVID-19 pandemic exceed the virus and epidemiological trends. Although its catastrophes have escalated globally, they have not unfolded homogeneously. The intensities and […]