Nicholas Arons "Something Funny Happened on the Way to the Drought" February 18, 2005

Nicholas Arons speaking in the Geballe Room on February 18.

When droughts hit northeastern Brazil, thousands of rural workers are forced to abandon their homes and hundreds die of remediable disease. The double impact of drought and corruption — with politicians taking advantage of drought to buy votes and pilfer government accounts — contributes to an endless cycle of human suffering. Nicholas Arons utilizes traditional social science scholarship as well as literature, popular art and oral history to interpret the impact of drought and the phenomenon of drought politics.

Nicholas Arons graduated from NYU Law School. He is currently Legal Advisor to the Palau Mission to the UN and a Fellow in NYU Law School’s Institute for International Law and Justice.

- Mr. Arons' article on the drought in Brazil
- Article by Mr. Arons on the drinking culture in Brazil

Cosponsored with the Department of Anthropology and the Townsend Center for the Humanities.