Double-digit inflation, over 5 million refugees, and a political deadlock with no easy solutions: The humanitarian crisis in Venezuela boggles the mind. In this ISR webinar, Iselin Åsedotter Strønen (University of Bergen), Eva van Roekel (Vrije Universiteit), Marjo de Theije (Vrije Universiteit), and Matt Wilde (University of Leicester) draw on their ethnographic research in Venezuela to explore what anthropology can add to debates on economic crisis, natural resource extraction and environmental threats. While using an anthropological approach to morality, the social anthropologists will specifically discuss the nexus of extractive societies, grassroots politics, kinship and social responsibility as taking place in contemporary Venezuela. Read more