The Taming of Fate : Approaching Risk from a Social Action Perspective Case Studies from Southern Mozambique /

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, Elísio Salvado (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2017
Colección:Codesria book series.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Risk > Sociological aspects > Mozambique.
Natural disasters > Sociological aspects > Mozambique.
Disasters > Sociological aspects > Mozambique.
Electronic books.
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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