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The political biography of an earthquake : aftermath and amnesia in Gujarat, India / Edward Simpson.
Van Pelt Library HV600 2001.G8 S559 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Simpson, Edward, 1971- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gujarat Earthquake, India, 2001--Political aspects.
- Gujarat Earthquake, India, 2001.
- Gujarat Earthquake, India, 2001--Social aspects.
- Disaster relief--Social aspects--India--Gujarat.
- Disaster relief.
- Disaster relief--Political aspects--India--Gujarat.
- Disaster victims--Rehabilitation--India--Gujarat.
- Disaster victims.
- Collective memory--India--Gujarat.
- Collective memory.
- Rehabilitation.
- Disaster relief--Political aspects.
- Disaster relief--Social aspects.
- Social aspects.
- India--Gujarat.
- India.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 302 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2014]
- Contents:
- 1 Introduction 1
- Section 1 Chai wallabs and the carpetbagger 15
- 1 Sublime 17
- 2 Retrospective anatomy 23
- 3 Aftermath epistemology 29
- 4 Hyperbolic capitalism 37
- 5 The carpetbagger 43
- 6 Notes on 'aftermath' 49
- Section 2 Earthquake politics 55
- 7 Regime change 57
- 8 View from the east 65
- 9 Borderlands 71
- 10 (Re)birth of an icon 77
- Section 3 Villages 85
- 11 Village 'adoption' 87
- 12 Service 95
- 13 Jihadi, dog and secularist 107
- 14 Building politics 113
- 15 Integral humanism 119
- Section 4 The seven crows 123
- 16 The place of Bhuj 125
- 17 Where to start? 133
- 18 Planners 141
- 19 G numbers 147
- 20 The unbearable intensity of reduction 153
- Section 5 The work of mourning 159
- 21 Nostalgia 161
- 22 History making 167
- 23 Rituals of reconstruction 173
- 24 Umashankar's great escape 179
- 25 Slow death 185
- 26 Values of citizenship 193
- Section 6 Hope 199
- 27 All is good? 201
- 28 Explanation 209
- 29 Inhabitation 219
- Section 7 Amnesia 225
- 30 Shocks of colonialism 227
- 31 Earthquake diaspora 235
- 32 Nehru's village (twice) 241
- 33 Planning to forget 245
- 34 Memory 255.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780199359929
- 019935992X
- OCLC:
- 858660100
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