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Personal profile
Overview
PhD candidate (2022-2026) at the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute, under the supervision of Dr. Nathaniel O'Grady and Dr. Aurora Fredriksen. As an anthropologist, I am interested in cultural elaborations of volcanism and more-than-human perspectives in disaster research. To this end, I ethnographically study the role of affect on ways of knowing and ways of being with active volcanism, through people's understandings, with the aim of rethinking risk communication in volcanic lands reoccupied after eruptions. My doctoral research focuses on Lonquimay, Calbuco and Antuco volcanoes (Chile).
See more about my PhD project at: #VolcanicAffectsAndMemories - Being with Volcanism in Chile
Other research
In addition, I investigate human-plant ecologies through sensory ethnography with coastal gatherer communities in the context of socio-ecological crisis.
Co-researcher in FONDECYT Regular project N° 1221641 "Enabling factors for interscientific dialogue in coastal areas facing climate change. Case study in Arauco Province, Chile" (PI: Dr Noelia Carrasco, 2022-2025).
Research interests
- Affect and disaster studies
- Risk perception and intercultural risk communication
- Local knowledge and disaster memory
- Emotional geographies
- Human-volcano relationships
- Human-plant relationships
- Interspecies relationships
- Sensory ethnography
Further information
Peer reviewer for:
- 2024 - IJDRR International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (3)
- 2024 - Estudios Atacameños (1)
- 2024 - NHESS Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences (1)
- 2024 - Antropologías del Sur (1)
- 2023 - REDER Revista de Estudios Latinoamericanos sobre RRD (1)
- 2021 - Antípoda Revista de Antropología y Arqueología (1)
- 2018 - Diálogo Andino (1)
Teaching
- Integrated Earth and Environmental Science field course (2024/25)
Memberships of committees and professional bodies
- Society for the Study of Affect
- Geological Society of Chile
- Chilean College of Anthropologists
- Ibero-American Network for Research in Imaginaries and Representations
- Latin American Association of Volcanology
- European International Studies Association
- Chilean Society of Socioecology and Ethnoecology
- International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth’s Interior
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Education/Academic qualification
Master of Social Science, Universidad de Los Lagos
Award Date: 20 Apr 2022
Sociocultural Anthropology, Universidad de Concepcion
Award Date: 29 Mar 2017
Areas of expertise
- H Social Sciences (General)
- Cultural Anthropology
- Qualitative Research Methods
- Cross-cultural understanding
- Ethnography
- Affect and Emotions Studies
- GN Anthropology
- Ethnography
- Disaster Risk Reduction
- Volcanic risk
- Risk perception
- Social imaginaries
- Rural studies
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How residents and volcanoes co-produce risk knowledge: Ways of knowing and affective attunement to the rhythms of Lonquimay volcano, Chile
Vergara-Pinto, F., O'grady, N., Fredriksen, A., Romero, J. E., Marchant, C., Walshe, R., Donovan, A., Morin, J. & Szlam, M., 30 Aug 2024, In: Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research. 108180.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Living in-between: Implications of local risk perceptions for the management of future eruptions at the Calbuco and Osorno volcanoes (Ensenada, Chile)
Alegría, C. & Vergara Pinto, F., Jan 2024, In: Andean Geology. 51, 1, p. 63-85Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Stratigraphy of volcanic memory: Layers of tephra, coping experiences and affects around volcanism
Vergara Pinto, F., 13 Feb 2024, Cities on Volcanoes 12 . Antigua Guatemala: Cities on Volcanoes - IAVCEI, p. 1 1 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review
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The Andean Southern Volcanic Zone: a review on the legacy of the latest volcanic eruptions
Romero, J. E., Vergara Pinto, F., Forte, P., Ovalle, J. T. & Sánchez, F., 31 May 2024, In: Andean Geology. 51, 2, p. 379-412 32 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Understanding rhythms: The role of social and volcanic temporalities in risk communication
Vergara Pinto, F., O'Grady, N., Fredriksen, A. & Romero, J. E., 13 Feb 2024.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review
Open Access