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Author:   Roberto E. Barrios
Publisher:   University of Nebraska Press
Imprint:   University of Nebraska Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.449kg
ISBN:  

9781496201904

ISBN 10:   1496201906
Pages:   306
Publication Date:   01 May 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Author’s Note Introduction: Affect and Emotions in Disaster Reconstruction 1. Powerful Feelings: Emotions and Governmentality in Disaster Research 2. Hallarse: Defining Recovery in Affective Terms 3. Feelings of Inequity: Gender and the Postcolonial Modernity of Disaster Reconstruction 4. The Marero: Terror and Disgust in the Aftermath of Mitch 5. Ecologies of Affect and Affective Regimes: The Neoliberal Reconstruction of New Orleans 6. How to Care? The Contested Affects of Disaster Recovery in the Lower Ninth Ward 7. Criollos, Creoles, and the Mobile Taquerias: Latinophobia in Post-Katrina New Orleans 8. To Love a Small Town: The Political Ecology of Affect in the Middle Mississippi 9. Rebuilding It Better: The Ethical Challenges of Disaster Recovery 10. The Anthropology of Affect and Disasters: From Critique to Practice References Index

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This is an excellent book, and a must read for those interested in the anthropology of disaster or theories of affect. Barrios's focus on social and environmental justice, partnered with his offhand, vernacular definitions and ethnographic presentations of concepts such as neoliberalism, modernity, postcolonialism, and disaster ethics, among other key concepts in anthropology, also makes the book a useful text for many upper division undergraduate courses or any graduate seminar in disaster studies or environmental justice. -Elizabeth Marino, Journal of Anthropological Research -- Elizabeth Marino * Journal of Anthropological Research * Governing Affect: Neoliberalism and Disaster Reconstruction and Disaster Upon Disaster, two books by Roberto E. Barrios, Anthropology, are showcased on a new reads list by the University of Colorado's Natural Hazards Center. The center, a leading National Science Foundation-designated information clearing house, compiles this list to highlight cutting-edge research that bridges the gap between academics and practitioners focused on disaster risk reduction. -SIUC News * SIUC News * Seamlessly weaving together poststructural theory, political economy, ethnography, and personal narrative, Roberto Barrios opens new terrain for understanding why disaster reconstruction so often falls short in addressing the needs of disaster victims by failing to recognize the power of affect. -Anthony Oliver-Smith, author of The Martyred City: Death and Rebirth in the Andes -- Anthony Oliver-Smith A major contribution to disaster scholarship . . . [and] provocative enough to provide an interesting classroom debate. -William L. Waugh Jr., coeditor of Emergency Management: Principles and Practice for Local Government, 2nd edition -- William L. Waugh Jr. In crystal clear, step-by-step prose, illuminated by four heart-wrenching examples, Roberto Barrios strips bare the ways pre- and postdisaster agencies and development schemes ignore the crucial importance of a vulnerable or devastated people's well-being. -Susanna M. Hoffman, coeditor of The Angry Earth: Disaster in Anthropological Perspective -- Susanna M. Hoffman

Seamlessly weaving together poststructural theory, political economy, ethnography, and personal narrative, Roberto Barrios opens new terrain for understanding why disaster reconstruction so often falls short in addressing the needs of disaster victims by failing to recognize the power of affect. -Anthony Oliver-Smith, author of The Martyred City: Death and Rebirth in the Andes -- Anthony Oliver-Smith A major contribution to disaster scholarship ... [and] provocative enough to provide an interesting classroom debate. -William L. Waugh Jr., coeditor of Emergency Management: Principles and Practice for Local Government, 2nd edition -- William L. Waugh Jr. In crystal clear, step-by-step prose, illuminated by four heart-wrenching examples, Roberto Barrios strips bare the ways pre- and postdisaster agencies and development schemes ignore the crucial importance of a vulnerable or devastated people's well-being. -Susanna M. Hoffman, coeditor of The Angry Earth: Disaster in Anthropological Perspective ? -- Susanna M. Hoffman

Seamlessly weaving together poststructural theory, political economy, ethnography, and personal narrative, Roberto Barrios opens new terrain for understanding why disaster reconstruction so often falls short in addressing the needs of disaster victims by failing to recognize the power of affect. - Anthony Oliver-Smith, author of The Martyred City: Death and Rebirth in the Andes A major contribution to disaster scholarship ... [and] provocative enough to provide an interesting classroom debate. - William L. Waugh Jr., coeditor of Emergency Management: Principles and Practice for Local Government, 2nd edition In crystal clear, step-by-step prose, illuminated by four heart-wrenching examples, Roberto Barrios strips bare the ways pre- and postdisaster agencies and development schemes ignore the crucial importance of a vulnerable or devastated people's well-being. - Susanna M. Hoffman, coeditor of The Angry Earth: Disaster in Anthropological Perspective

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Roberto E. Barrios is an associate professor of anthropology at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale.    

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