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Author Barrios, Roberto E

Title Governing Affect : Neoliberalism and Disaster Reconstruction
Published Lincoln : UNP - Nebraska, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (306 pages)
Series Anthropology of Contemporary North America
Anthropology of contemporary North America.
Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; 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 Ward7. 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Disaster relief -- Social aspects -- Case studies
Natural disasters -- Social aspects -- Case studies
Hurricane Mitch, 1998 -- Social aspects -- Honduras
Disaster relief -- Social aspects -- Honduras
Hurricane Katrina, 2005 -- Social aspects -- Louisiana -- New Orleans
Disaster relief -- Social aspects -- Louisiana -- New Orleans
Landslides -- Social aspects -- Mexico -- Grijalva River Valley
Disaster relief -- Social aspects -- Mexico -- Grijalva River Valley
Floods -- Social aspects -- Illinois -- Olive Branch
Disaster relief -- Social aspects -- Illinois -- Olive Branch
Disaster relief -- Social aspects
Floods -- Social aspects
Landslides -- Social aspects
Natural disasters -- Social aspects
Social aspects
Honduras
Illinois -- Olive Branch
Louisiana -- New Orleans
Mexico -- Grijalva River Valley
Genre/Form Case studies
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781496200167
1496200160