The golden wave : culture and politics after Sri Lanka's tsunami disaster / Michele Ruth Gamburd.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gamburd, Michele Ruth, 1965-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Disaster relief--Sri Lanka.

Disaster relief.

Tsunamis--Sri Lanka.

Tsunamis.

Sri Lanka--Social conditions--21st century.

Sri Lanka.

Sri Lanka--Politics and government--21st century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (234 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In December 2004 the Indian Ocean tsunami devastated coastal regions of Sri Lanka. Six months later, Michele Ruth Gamburd returned to the village where she had been conducting research for many years and began collecting residents' stories of the disaster and its aftermath: the chaos and loss of the flood itself; the sense of community and leveling of social distinctions as people worked together to recover and regroup; and the local and national politics of foreign aid as the country began to rebuild. In The Golden Wave, Gamburd describes how the catastrophe changed social identities, econ

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations, Names, and Sinhala Terms; Introduction: Political Ethnography of Disaster; Wijitha's Story; 1 That Day: Chaos and Solidarity; Dr. Priyanka's Story; 2 Deaths: Fate and Vulnerability; Pradeep and Manoj's Story; 3 Short-Term Camps: Chaos and the Crafting of Order; Sumendra's Story; 4 Housing: Temporary Shelters, Permanent Homes, and the Buffer Zone; Lalitha's Story; 5 Dangerous Liaisons: The Power, Peril, and Politics of Mediating between Donors and Recipients; Jagath's Story; 6 Business Recovery: Tourism and Construction; Dayawansa's Story

7 Reconstructing Class: Discourse on Theft, Loot, Cheating, and GiftsFazmina's Story; 8 The Politics of Corruption: Accusations and Rebuttals; Tharindu's Story; 9 Citizenship and Ethnicity: The Tsunami and the Civil War; Conclusion; Notes; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 18, 2013).

ISBN:

9780253011398

0253011396

9780253011503

0253011507

OCLC:

864744479