In the Shadow of Tungurahua : Disaster Politics in Highland Ecuador /

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"In the Shadow of Tungurahua relates the stories of the people of Penipe, Ecuador living in and between several villages around the volcano Tungurahua and two resettlement communities built for people displaced by government operations following volcanic eruptions in 1999 and 2006. The stories...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Faas, A. J. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2023]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Nature and civilization.
Emergency management > Social aspects.
Disasters > Social aspects.
Human beings > Effect of volcanic eruptions on > Ecuador > Chimborazo.
Environmental refugees > Ecuador > Chimborazo > Social conditions.
Disasters > Social aspects > Ecuador > Chimborazo.
Emergency management > Social aspects > Ecuador > Chimborazo.
Ecuador > Tungurahua Volcano.
Ecuador > Chimborazo.
Tungurahua Volcano (Ecuador) > Eruptions.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: Fire on the mountain
  • Introduction: Reframing disaster
  • Mobilities & (re)settlements
  • Archipelagos and bare life
  • The production of space
  • The four walls of bare life
  • Enduring cooperation
  • Institutions
  • El indigno, el truco, el chisme, y el adelanto
  • "But we did it"
  • Epilogue: Convivir.

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