Sandrine Revet

Sandrine Revet is an anthropologist. Her first work focused on the anthropology of disasters, with a Phd thesis on 1999 mudflows in Venezuela (Anthropologie d'une catastrophe, Presses de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2007). From 2008 to 2015, she conducted a multisite survey on the international world of disasters, which led her from UN offices in Geneva to several Latin American countries where programmes to prevent or manage "natural" disasters are implemented (Les coulisses du monde des catastrophes "naturelles", Ed. FMSH, 2018; Disasterland, An Ethnography of the International Disaster Community, Palgrave 2020).

Since 2018, she has been conducting research on the regulation of human-environmental relations in a context of crisis, based on the case of the Atrato River in Colombia, which was declared a legal entity in 2016 by Colombian Constitutional Court. This research contributes in a comparative perspective to the project Ruling on Nature. Animals and environment before the court (RULNAT) funded by the ANR (2020-2025). Then, from an interdisciplinary perspective, with the Social Life of Water Data (SLOW) project funded by the Centre des Politiques de la Terre (2023–2025).

She coordinates or participates in several disaster research networks (ARCRA in France, DICAN within EASA) and has been leading the Disasters and Risks seminar at CERI since 2009.

• Depuis 2023 : Cours magistral Anthropologie des catastrophes avec Maëlle Calandra, Formation Académique commune Sciences Po (tous Masters), 24h (+-140 étudiants)
   
• Depuis 2020-21 : Cours magistral L2 Aléas, risques et sociétés, 
  UE SciencesPo/Université de Paris Cité/IPGP (BASC Politiques de la terre) avec Frédéric Fluteau, 1er semestre, 12h. (50 étudiants en moyenne)

Main publications

• Sandrine Revet. Who can speak for and listen to the Atrato river? Expertise and epistemic “shift” in a rights of nature legal decision in Colombia. Civilisations - revue internationale d'Antropologie et de sciences humaines, 73 (2024), pp.105-120.
   
• Daniela Berti, Vanessa Manceron, Sandrine Revet. Introduction - In the name of nature: Activists, experts, and the law. Civilisations - revue internationale d'Antropologie et de sciences humaines, 73 (2024), pp.5-12.
   
• Sandrine Revet. Testimoniar en el juicio por la catástrofe Xynthia. Dimensiones jurídicas y morales de la palabra de las víctimas. Diego Zenobi (compilador). In Víctimas: debates sobre una condición contemporánea, Editorial Teseo, pp.205-227, 2023, Colección Antropología Jurídica y Derechos Humanos.
   
• Sandrine Revet. The International World of Disasters: Beyond Reflexivity, Surpassing Naturalism? In Julien Rebotier (ed.). Risks and the Anthropocene. Alternative Views on the Environmental Emergency, ISTE - Wiley, 2022.
   
• Sandrine Revet. Le fleuve et ses gardiens. Droits bioculturels en action sur le fleuve Atrato. Terrain : anthropologie et sciences humaines, 2022.
   
• Sandrine Revet. Reenact, commemorate and make amends after storm Xynthia through a judicial dispositif. In Laura Centemeri; Sezin Topçu; J. Peter Burgess (eds). Rethinking Post-Disaster Recovery, Routledge, pp.185-203, 2021.
   
• Sandrine Revet. Les droits du fleuve. Polyphonie autour du fleuve Atrato en Colombie et de ses Gardiens. Sociétés politiques comparées, 52, septembre-décembre 2020.
   
• Sandrine Revet. Disasterland. An Ethnography of the International Disaster Community. Palgrave Macmillan (The Sciences Po Series in International Relations and Political Economy), 236 p., 2020.
   
• Sandrine Revet. Les coulisses du monde des catastrophes « naturelles ». Maison des sciences de l'homme (Le (bien) commun), pp.237, 2018.

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