Governing Affect – Neoliberalism and Disaster Reconstruction Barrios Hardback

Governing AffectNeoliberalism and Disaster Reconstruction\nAuthor(s): Roberto E. Barrios\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Nebraska Press, United States\nImprint: University of Nebraska Press\nISBN-13: 9780803262966, 978-0803262966\nSynopsis\nRoberto E. Barriospresents 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. Focusing on the role of affect, Barrios examines the ways in which people who live through disasters use emotions as a means of assessing the relevance of governmentally sanctioned recovery plans, judgingthe effectiveness of suchprograms, and reflectingon the risk of living in areas that have been deemed prone to [url] such as terror, disgust, or sentimental attachment to place all shape the meanings we assign to disasters as well as our political res.