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Governing affect : neoliberalism and disaster reconstruction

Barrios, Roberto E., author

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\"Roberto E. Barriospresents 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.\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Subject: Disaster relief Social aspects Case studies. / Natural disasters Social aspects Case studies. / Hurricane Mitch, 1998 Social aspects Honduras. / Disaster relief Social aspects Honduras. / Hurricane Katrina, 2005 Social aspects Louisiana New Orleans. / Disaster relief Social aspects Louisiana New Orleans. / Landslides Social aspects Mexico Grijalva River Valley. / Disaster relief Social aspects Mexico Grijalva River Valley. / Floods Social aspects Illinois Olive Branch. / Disaster relief Social aspects Illinois Olive Branch. / SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural. / NATURE / Natural Disasters.
• ISBN: 9780803262966, 9781496201904, 9781496200143, 9781496200167, 9781496200150

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
HV553.B365 2017	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE