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Governing affect : neoliberalism and disaster reconstruction /

"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. Foc...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Barrios, Roberto E. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2017]
Series:Anthropology of contemporary North America.
Subjects:
USA
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Affect and emotions in disaster reconstruction
  • Powerful feelings : emotions and governmentality in disaster research
  • Hallarse : defining recovery in affective terms
  • Feelings of inequality : gender and the postcolonial modernity of disaster reconstruction
  • The Marero : terror and disgust in the aftermath of Mitch
  • Ecologies of affect and affective regimes : the neoliberal reconstruction of New Orleans
  • How to care? : the contested affects of disaster recovery in the lower Ninth Ward
  • Criollos, Creoles, and the mobile taquerias : Latinophobia in post-Katrina New Orleans
  • To love a small town : the political ecology of affect in the middle Mississippi
  • Rebuilding it better : the ethical challenges of disaster recovery
  • The anthropology of affect and disasters : from critique to practice.