A.J. Faas
Professor and Graduate Coordinator
Ph.D. University of South Florida
Expertise:
Environmental Anthropology, Political Anthropology, and Economic Anthropology
Office Hours:
Mondays and Wednesdays from 3:00 - 5:00pm in-person (Clark Hall 404L) or
Clark Hall 404L
408-924-5732
aj.faas@sjsu.edu
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A.J. Faas (PhD, Anthropology, University of South Florida) studies disasters, environmental crises, and displacement and resettlement. He focuses on the anthropology of the state, postcolonialism, cooperation and reciprocity, economic anthropology, organizations and bureaucracy, and the politics of nature, culture, and memory. His most recent book is (Rutgers University Press, 2023), which explores the politics of how disasters are made and contested, cooperation in disaster, and the story of a more-than-human lifeworld in the shadow of a grandmother volcano where the people of Penipe are envisioning new futures according to their own cultural logics of the good.
Faas is co-editor, with Eric C. Jones, of the edited volume, Social Network Analysis of Disaster Response, Recovery, and Adaptation (2018); and co-editor, with Roberto E. Barrios, of the 2015 special issue of Human Organization on 鈥淭he Applied Anthropology of Disasters.鈥� He is the editor of the 2016 special issue of The Annals of Anthropological Practice on 鈥淐ontinuity and Change in the Applied Anthropology of Risk, Hazards, and Disaster鈥� and the 2017 special issue of the Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology on 鈥淐hanging Practices of Andean Cooperation and Reciprocity in the Twenty-First Century.鈥�
Selected Bibliography of Recent Publications
Faas, A. J., Simon Jarrar, and No茅mie Gonzalez Bautista. 2022. 鈥�.鈥� Disaster Prevention and Management 31(4):411-424.
Faas, A. J. 2023. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.
Faas, A. J. 2022. 鈥淎ntropolog铆as de Desastres en Ecuador: Conexiones y Aperturas.鈥� , edited by Virginia Garc铆a-Acosta, 181-210. M茅xico City: CIESAS, Gedisa, y Colegio de Michoac谩n.
Faas, A. J., Roberto Barrios, Virginia Garc铆a-Acosta, Adriana Garriga-L贸pez, Seven Mattes, and Jennifer Trivedi. 2020. 鈥�.鈥� Special Issue on COVID-19. Human Organization 79(4): 333鈥�342.
Faas, A. J., and Elizabeth Marino. 2020. 鈥�.鈥� Disaster Prevention and Management 29(4):481-484.
Marino, Elizabeth, and A. J. Faas. 2020. 鈥�.鈥� Annals of Anthropological Practice 44(1):33-46.
Faas, A. J. 2020. 鈥淎nthropologies of Disasters in Ecuador: Connections and Apertures.鈥� : The State of the Art, edited by Virginia Garc铆a-Acosta, 102-125. New York: Routledge.
Faas, A. J., Roberto E. Barrios, Elizabeth Marino, and Julie Koppel Maldonado. 2020. 鈥淒isasters and Climate Change-Related Displacements and Resettlements: Cultural and Political Ecologies of Space, Power, and Practice.鈥� ., edited by Anthony Oliver-Smith and Susanna Hoffman, 345-356. New York: Routledge.
Faas, A. J., Anne-Lise K. Velez, Branda L. Nowell, and Toddi A. Steelman. 2019. 鈥�.鈥� International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 40: 101260.
Mason, Sophie Shan, and A.J. Faas. 2019. 鈥淐ulture at Work in Disaster Interventions: Practitioners at the 2017 United Nations Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction.鈥� Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the Southwestern Anthropological Association.
Lei, Sun, and A. J. Faas. 2018. 鈥�Social Production of Disasters and Disaster Social Constructs: An Exercise in Disambiguation and Reconciliation.鈥� Disaster Prevention and Management 27(5):623-635 [pdf].
Faas, A. J. 2018. 鈥�Petit Capitalisms in Disaster, or the Limits of Neoliberal Imagination: Displacement, Recovery, and Opportunism in Highland Ecuador.鈥� Economic Anthropology 5(1):32-44 [pdf].
Faas, A. J. 2017. 鈥�Enduring Cooperation: Time, discipline, and minga practice in disaster-induced displacement and resettlement in the Ecuadorian Andes.鈥� Human Organization 76(2):99-108 [pdf].
Faas, A.J., Anne-Lise Velez, Clare FitzGerald, Branda Nowell, and Toddi Steelman. 2017. 鈥�Patterns of Preference and Practice: Bridging Actors in Wildfire Response Networks in the American Northwest.鈥� Disasters 41(3):527-548 [pdf].
Jones, Eric C., and A.J. Faas (eds.) 2017. Social Network Analysis of Disaster Response, Recovery, and Adaptation. New York: Butterworth-Heinemann [pdf].
Faas, A. J. 2016. 鈥�Continuity and Change in the Applied Anthropology of Risk, Hazards, and Disasters.鈥� The Annals of Anthropological Practice 40(1):1-8 [pdf].
Faas, A. J. 2016. 鈥淒isaster Vulnerability in Anthropological Perspective.鈥� The Annals of Anthropological Practice 40(1):9-22 [pdf].
Faas, A.J., and Roberto Barrios. 2015. 鈥�Applied Anthropology of Risk, Hazards, and Disasters.鈥� Human Organization 74(4):287-295 [pdf].
