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About Taussig-Rubbo , Mateo
Mateo Taussig-Rubbo is associate professor of law, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, USA. He studied law at Yale University and anthropology at Chicago. His most recent article is ‘Outsourcing sacrifice: The labor of private military contractors’, Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities 21(1) (2009).
Articles by Taussig-Rubbo , Mateo
Solidarity in the face of disaster
November 30, 2009 Mateo Taussig-Rubbo
We all know what happens in times of disaster. The mask of civility and morality constraining our selfish, animal instincts falls away. People panic, mobs form and there’s looting, arson and mayhem. Think of Thomas Hobbes and his state of nature or the tales about New Orleans after Katrina. Those who do not become predators are victimized. If we are lucky, civil and military authorities will save us. Read more>>
