{"product_id":"governing-affect-9780803262966","title":"Governing Affect","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePresents 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. \u003cem\u003eGoverning Affect\u003c\/em\u003e brings policy and politics into dialogue with human emotion.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This is an excellent book, and a must read for those interested in the anthropology of disaster or theories of affect. Barrios's focus on social and environmental justice, partnered with his offhand, vernacular definitions and ethnographic presentations of concepts such as neoliberalism, modernity, postcolonialism, and disaster ethics, among other key concepts in anthropology, also makes the book a useful text for many upper division undergraduate courses or any graduate seminar in disaster studies or environmental justice.\"—Elizabeth Marino, \u003ci\u003eJournal of Anthropological Research\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eGoverning Affect: Neoliberalism and Disaster Reconstruction\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDisaster Upon Disaster\u003c\/i\u003e, two books by Roberto E. Barrios, Anthropology, are showcased on a “new reads” list by the University of Colorado’s Natural Hazards Center. The center, a leading National Science Foundation-designated information clearing house, compiles this list to highlight cutting-edge research that bridges the gap between academics and practitioners focused on disaster risk reduction.\"—\u003ci\u003eSIUC News\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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 \u003ci\u003eThe Martyred City: Death and Rebirth in the Andes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e“A major contribution to disaster scholarship . . . [and] provocative enough to provide an interesting classroom debate.”—William L. Waugh Jr., coeditor of \u003ci\u003eEmergency Management: Principles and Practice for Local Government\u003c\/i\u003e, 2nd edition\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e“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 \u003ci\u003eThe Angry Earth: Disaster in Anthropological Perspective\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Author’s Note\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Affect and Emotions in Disaster Reconstruction\u003cbr\u003e 1. Powerful Feelings: Emotions and Governmentality in Disaster Research\u003cbr\u003e 2. \u003ci\u003eHallarse\u003c\/i\u003e: Defining Recovery in Affective Terms\u003cbr\u003e 3. Feelings of Inequity: Gender and the Postcolonial Modernity of Disaster Reconstruction\u003cbr\u003e 4. The \u003ci\u003eMarero\u003c\/i\u003e: Terror and Disgust in the Aftermath of Mitch\u003cbr\u003e 5. Ecologies of Affect and Affective Regimes: The Neoliberal Reconstruction of New Orleans\u003cbr\u003e 6. How to Care? The Contested Affects of Disaster Recovery in the Lower Ninth Ward\u003cbr\u003e 7. Criollos, Creoles, and the Mobile Taquerias: Latinophobia in Post-Katrina New Orleans\u003cbr\u003e 8. To Love a Small Town: The Political Ecology of Affect in the Middle Mississippi\u003cbr\u003e 9. Rebuilding It Better: The Ethical Challenges of Disaster Recovery\u003cbr\u003e 10. The Anthropology of Affect and Disasters: From Critique to Practice\u003cbr\u003e References\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405266133335,"sku":"9780803262966","price":48.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780803262966.jpg?v=1730489343","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/governing-affect-9780803262966","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}