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Building Back Better in India : Development, NGOs, and Artisanal Fishers after the 2004 Tsunami / Raja Swamy.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Swamy, Raja, 1970- author.
- Series:
- NGOgraphies.
- NGOgraphies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tsunami relief--India--Nagapattinam (District).
- Tsunami relief.
- Disaster management--India--Nagapattinam (District).
- Disaster management.
- Humanitarian assistance--India--Nagapattinam (District).
- Humanitarian assistance.
- Indian Ocean Tsunami, 2004.
- Non-governmental organizations--India--Nagapattinam (District).
- Non-governmental organizations.
- Fisheries--India--Nagapattinam (District).
- Fisheries.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (236 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Tuscaloosa, Alabama : University of Alabama Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- "Critically examines the role of humanitarian aid and disaster reconstruction"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction : "Building Back Better"
- Nagapattinam
- The tsunami of 2004 and its aftermath
- Artisanal fishers, the state, and an NGO
- The politics of humanitarianism
- NGO antipolitics and politics
- The humanitarian gift economy
- Economic development and humanitarian aid
- Unbridging the future : connectivity and distance
- Memory, space, and power
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780817393632
- 0817393633
- OCLC:
- 1257072750
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