Governing Affect
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Governing Affect

Neoliberalism and Disaster Reconstruction

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Governing Affect

Neoliberalism and Disaster Reconstruction

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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, judgingthe effectiveness of suchprograms, and reflectingon 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.


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Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Year
2017
ISBN
9781496200143
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Cultural & Social Anthropology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Series Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. List of Illustrations
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Author’s Note
  10. Introduction
  11. 1. Powerful Feelings
  12. 2. Hallarse
  13. 3. Feelings of Inequity
  14. 4. The Marero
  15. 5. Ecologies of Affect and Affective Regimes
  16. 6. How to Care?
  17. 7. Criollos, Creoles, and the Mobile Taquerias
  18. 8. To Love a Small Town
  19. 9. Rebuilding It Better
  20. 10. The Anthropology of Affect and Disasters
  21. References
  22. Index
  23. About Roberto E. Barrios
  24. Series List