Governing Affect - Neoliberalism and Disaster Reconstruction

Roberto E. Barrios is an associate professor of anthropology at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale.
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List of 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

About the author

Roberto E. Barrios is an associate professor of anthropology at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale.
 
 

Summary

Presents 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. Governing Affect brings policy and politics into dialogue with human emotion.

Product details

• Authors: Roberto Barrios, Roberto E Barrios, Roberto E. Barrios
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2017
• EAN: 9781496201904
• ISBN: 978-1-4962-0190-4
• No. of pages: 306
• Series: Anthropology of Contemporary North America; Anthropology of Contemporary N; Anthropology of Contemporary North America; Anthropology of Contemporary N
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature and society: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology