NWO-VENI project: Emergency Ethics. Crisis, Nature and Wealth in Venezuela

Due to the protracted humanitarian crisis, many Venezuelans currently sustain their livelihoods at the expense of others and nature through resource extraction, smuggling, money transfers, and trading cryptocurrencies. These emergency practices are indirectly inked to global supply chains and international organised crime, wherein individuals and companies make astronomical profits from sustaining the crisis. I will ethnographically
investigate how Venezuelans in rural and urban areas justify these actions. Herewith I will provide new insights about ethical behaviour during crisis and determine how prolonged crisis affects the moral relations between social and environmental justice.