Governing Affect : Neoliberalism and Disaster Reconstruction.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- 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.

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