Taming of Fate.

This book is about how extreme situations appearing to have a destructive potential can actually be used to produce meaningful individual and social lives. It is about the "taming of fate". This notion means and accounts for the ability of individuals and communities to rebuild their lives...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Macamo, S.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: CODESRIA, 2017.
Temas:
Risk > Mozambique > Sociological aspects.
Natural disasters > Mozambique > Sociological aspects.
Disasters > Mozambique > Sociological aspects.
Risque > Mozambique > Aspect sociologique.
Catastrophes naturelles > Mozambique > Aspect sociologique.
Catastrophes > Mozambique > Aspect sociologique.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Human Services.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Regional Studies.
Disasters > Sociological aspects.
Risk > Sociological aspects.
Mozambique.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Coping with crises and disasters in southern Mozambique
  • part one. Theoretical and methodological issues
  • 2. Studying Africa
  • 3. Risk and social reality
  • 4. Methodological issues : contexts of action
  • part two. Studies in coping with disasters and crises
  • 5. When disaster strikes
  • 6. Conflicting interpretations of reality
  • 7. War refugees
  • 8. African Christian converts and the creation of locality
  • part three. Conclusion
  • 9. The taming of fate.

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