
Governing Affect
Neoliberalism and Disaster Reconstruction
Roberto E. Barrios
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 05/2017
Pages: 324
Subject: Social Science
eBook ISBN: 9781496200143
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Roberto E. Barrios is an associate professor of anthropology at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale.
REVIEWS
"Seamlessly weaving together poststructural theory, political economy, ethnography, and personal narrative, Roberto Barrios opens new terrain for understanding why disaster reconstruction so often falls short in addressing the needs of disaster victims by failing to recognize the power of affect."—Anthony Oliver-Smith, author of The Martyred City: Death and Rebirth in the Andes
"A major contribution to disaster scholarship . . . [and] provocative enough to provide an interesting classroom debate."—William L. Waugh Jr., coeditor of Emergency Management: Principles and Practice for Local Government, 2nd edition
"In crystal clear, step-by-step prose, illuminated by four heart-wrenching examples, Roberto Barrios strips bare the ways pre- and postdisaster agencies and development schemes ignore the crucial importance of a vulnerable or devastated people's well-being."—Susanna M. Hoffman, coeditor of The Angry Earth: Disaster in Anthropological Perspective
"A major contribution to disaster scholarship . . . [and] provocative enough to provide an interesting classroom debate."—William L. Waugh Jr., coeditor of Emergency Management: Principles and Practice for Local Government, 2nd edition
"In crystal clear, step-by-step prose, illuminated by four heart-wrenching examples, Roberto Barrios strips bare the ways pre- and postdisaster agencies and development schemes ignore the crucial importance of a vulnerable or devastated people's well-being."—Susanna M. Hoffman, coeditor of The Angry Earth: Disaster in Anthropological Perspective
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