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Governing Affect: Neoliberalism and Disaster Reconstruction

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Availability:In StockContributor:Roberto E. BarriosSeries:Anthropology of Contemporary North AmericaPublish date:2017-05-01Pages:306
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Nebraska PressISBN-13:9781496201904ISBN-10:1496201906UPC:9781496201904Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Anthropology, Disasters & Disaster ReliefBook Topic:Cultural & SocialSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.69 inchesWeight:0.9899Product ID:SCB4ZWXH4B

Roberto E. Barrios presents an ethnographic study of the aftermaths of four natural disasters: southern Honduras after Hurricane Mitch; New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina; Chiapas, Mexico, after the Grijalva River landslide; and southern Illinois following the Mississippi River flood. Focusing on the role of affect, Barrios examines the ways in which people who live through disasters use emotions as a means of assessing the relevance of governmentally sanctioned recovery plans, judging the effectiveness of such programs, and reflecting on the risk of living in areas that have been deemed prone to disaster. Emotions such as terror, disgust, or sentimental attachment to place all shape the meanings we assign to disasters as well as our political responses to them.

The ethnographic cases in Governing Affect highlight how reconstruction programs, government agencies, and recovery experts often view postdisaster contexts as opportune moments to transform disaster-affected communities through principles and practices of modernist and neoliberal development. Governing Affect brings policy and politics into dialogue with human emotion to provide researchers and practitioners with an analytical toolkit for apprehending and addressing issues of difference, voice, and inequity in the aftermath of catastrophes.

Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Nebraska PressISBN-13:9781496201904ISBN-10:1496201906UPC:9781496201904Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Anthropology, Disasters & Disaster ReliefBook Topic:Cultural & SocialSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.69 inchesWeight:0.9899Product ID:SCB4ZWXH4B
Roberto E. Barrios is an associate professor of anthropology at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale.


Publisher: University of Nebraska Press

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