{"product_id":"in-the-shadow-of-tungurahua-disaster-politics-in-highland-ecuador-9781978831575","title":"In the Shadow of Tungurahua: Disaster Politics in","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn the Shadow of Tungurahua \u003c\/i\u003erelates the stories of the people of Penipe, Ecuador living in and between several villages around the volcano Tungurahua and two resettlement communities built for people displaced by government operations following volcanic eruptions in 1999 and 2006. The stories take shape in ways that influence prevailing ideas about how disasters are produced and reproduced, in this case by shifting assemblages of the state first formed during Spanish colonialism attempting to settle (make “legible”) and govern Indigenous and campesino populations and places. The disasters unfolding around Tungurahua at the turn of the 21st century also provide lessons in the humanitarian politics of disaster—questions of deservingness, reproducing inequality, and the reproduction of bare life. But this is also a story of how people responded to confront hardships and craft new futures, about forms of cooperation to cope with and adapt to disaster, and the potential for locally derived disaster recovery projects and politics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eIn the Shadow of Tungurahua\u003c\/i\u003e is a powerful reminder of ethnography’s analytical and methodological value in the anthropological study of disasters. Weaving theoretical reflections with ethnographic storytelling, Faas examines the ways people work tirelessly to make meaningful lives in catastrophe’s aftermath and how disaster affected communities are often haunted by colonial and post-colonial political ecological processes that engender disasters. Books like this are few and far between.\" -- Roberto E. Barrios * author of Governing Affect: Neoliberalism and Disaster Reconstruction *\u003cbr\u003e\"This book demonstrates how deeply an anthropological eye can probe when guided by solid theory, methodology, and long and careful fieldwork. A.J. Faas makes a transformative contribution to the study of disasters and politics in Ecuador, Latin America, and the Global South. It’s a delightful read, rich in ethnographic detail and engaging prose, and a testament to the value of anthropological approaches to the study of disaster.\" -- Virginia García-Acosta * editor of The Anthropology of Disasters in Latin America: State of the Art *\u003cbr\u003e\"A. J. Faas masterfully presents the stories of residents who were affected by the 1999 and 2006 volcanic eruptions of Tungurahua in the Sierra of central Ecuador [and] provides valuable insight into the politics of disasters. The accounts and experiences of the people of Penipe following the eruption and during their resettlement are powerful, and readers\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003ewill quickly feel transported to the streets, porches, agricultural fields, and communal buildings where these events unfolded.\" * Journal of Latin American Geography *\u003cbr\u003e\"Tungurahua is a volcano that erupted ten years before Faas completed his fieldwork in Penipe...[L]ike the volcano, Faas’s \u003ci\u003eIn the Shadow of Tungurahua\u003c\/i\u003e is similarly potent due to the scope of its scholarly interventions, for how it brings together the anthropologies of work, risk, and disaster. It is also potent for how it keeps the ethnographic encounter front and center, which breathes life into the text.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   * Exertions, the Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Work *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eIn the Shadow of Tungurahua\u003c\/i\u003e, by A.J. Faas, is a frame story, a structure that allows a rich tapestry of place-based stories to unfold...Faas understands the present situation of people responding to disaster not as an unexpected development but a manifestation of centuries of social and political activity in a place permanently plagued by conquest and resistance – but it is anything but simplistic.\" * Disaster Prevention and Management *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eIn the Shadow of Tungurahua\u003c\/i\u003e is a powerful reminder of ethnography’s analytical and methodological value in the anthropological study of disasters. Weaving theoretical reflections with ethnographic storytelling, Faas examines the ways people work tirelessly to make meaningful lives in catastrophe’s aftermath and how disaster affected communities are often haunted by colonial and post-colonial political ecological processes that engender disasters. Books like this are few and far between.\" -- Roberto E. Barrios * author of Governing Affect: Neoliberalism and Disaster Reconstruction *\u003cbr\u003e\"This book demonstrates how deeply an anthropological eye can probe when guided by solid theory, methodology, and long and careful fieldwork. A.J. Faas makes a transformative contribution to the study of disasters and politics in Ecuador, Latin America, and the Global South. It’s a delightful read, rich in ethnographic detail and engaging prose, and a testament to the value of anthropological approaches to the study of disaster.\" -- Virginia García-Acosta * editor of The Anthropology of Disasters in Latin America: State of the Art *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003ePrologue – Fire on The Mountain\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction – Reframing Disaster\u003cbr\u003ePart I – Mobility and Legibility\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1 – Mobilities \u0026amp; (Re)Settlements\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2 – Archipelagos and Bare Life\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3 – The Production of Space\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4 – The Four Walls of Bare Life\u003cbr\u003ePart II – The Palimpsest of Minga\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5 – Enduring Cooperation\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6 – Institutions\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7 – El Indigno, El Truco, El Chisme, Y El Adelanto\u003cbr\u003ePart III – Recoveries\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eChapter 8 – “But We Did It”\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue – Convivir\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eReferences\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49415264469335,"sku":"9781978831575","price":107.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781978831575.jpg?v=1730526425","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/in-the-shadow-of-tungurahua-disaster-politics-in-highland-ecuador-9781978831575","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}