Title In the shadow of Tungurahua : disaster politics in Highland Ecuador / A.J. Faas

Published New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2023]

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 228 pages) : illustrations, maps 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 Summary "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 take shape in ways that influence prevailing ideas about how disasters are produced and reproduced, in this case by shifting assemblages of the state first formed during Spanish colonialism attempting to settle (make "legible") and govern Indigenous and campesino populations and places. The disasters unfolding around Tungurahua at the turn of the 21st century also provide lessons in the humanitarian politics of disaster-questions of deservingness, reproducing inequality, and the reproduction of bare life. But this is also a story of how people responded to confront hardships and craft new futures, about forms of cooperation to cope with and adapt to disaster, and the potential for locally derived disaster recovery projects and politics"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (JSTOR, viewed on March 2, 2023) Subject Emergency management -- Social aspects -- Ecuador -- Chimborazo Disasters -- Social aspects -- Ecuador -- Chimborazo Environmental refugees -- Ecuador -- Chimborazo -- Social conditions Human beings -- Effect of volcanic eruptions on -- Ecuador -- Chimborazo Nature and civilization. SOCIAL SCIENCE / General Volcanic eruptions Disasters -- Social aspects Emergency management -- Social aspects Nature and civilization SUBJECT Tungurahua Volcano (Ecuador) -- Eruptions Subject Ecuador -- Chimborazo Ecuador -- Tungurahua Volcano Form Electronic book ISBN 9781978831582 1978831587 9781978831605 1978831609

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