Governing affect : neoliberalism and disaster reconstruction / Roberto E. Barrios.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barrios, Roberto E., author.

Series:

Anthropology of contemporary North America.

Anthropology of Contemporary North America

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Disaster relief--Social aspects--Case studies.

Disaster relief.

Natural disasters--Social aspects--Case studies.

Natural disasters.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (306 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lincoln, [Nebraska] ; London, [England] : University of Nebraska Press, 2017.

Summary:

"Roberto E. Barriospresents an ethnographic study of the aftermaths of four natural disasters: southern Honduras after Hurricane Mitch; New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina; Chiapas, Mexico, after the Grijalva River landslide; and southern Illinois following the Mississippi River flood. Focusing on the role of affect, Barrios examines the ways in which people who live through disasters use emotions as a means of assessing the relevance of governmentally sanctioned recovery plans, judging the effectiveness of such programs, and reflecting on the risk of living in areas that have been deemed prone to disaster. Emotions such as terror, disgust, or sentimental attachment to place all shape the meanings we assign to disasters as well as our political responses to them. The ethnographic cases in Governing Affect highlight how reconstruction programs, government agencies, and recovery experts often view postdisaster contexts as opportune moments to transform disaster-affected communities through principles and practices of modernist and neoliberal development. Governing Affect brings policy and politics into dialogue with human emotion to provide researchers and practitioners with an analytical toolkit for apprehending and addressing issues of difference, voice, and inequity in the aftermath of catastrophes."-- Provided by publisher.

""Governing Affect" is a transnational comparative examination of the intersection of emotions and disaster recovery in Honduras; New Orleans; Chiapas, Mexico; and Illinois"-- Provided by publisher.

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 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781496200167

1496200160

9781496200143

1496200144

OCLC:

978580734