Building Back Better in India - Development, NGOs, and Artisanal Fishers after the 2004 Tsunami

About the author

Raja Swamy is assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Summary

Addresses the ways in which natural disasters impact the strategies and priorities of neoliberalizing states in the contemporary era. Raja Swamy offers an ethnographically rich account of post-disaster reconstruction, its contested aims, and the mixed outcomes of state policy, humanitarian aid, and local resistance.

Product details

• Authors: Raja Swamy
• Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2021
• EAN: 9780817320973
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-2097-3
• No. of pages: 232
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 239 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 510 g
• Illustrations: 9 black & white figures, 1 map
• Series: NGOgraphies; Ngographies: Ethnographic Refl
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature and society: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education