The Political Biography of an Earthquake: Aftermath and Amnesia in Gujarat, India 9780199359929

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Автор: Simpson Edward
Название: The Political Biography of an Earthquake: Aftermath and Amnesia in Gujarat, India
ISBN: 9780199359929
Издательство: Oxford Academ
Издательство: Oxford University Press, USA
Классификация: ISBN-10: 019935992X
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 288
Вес: 0.54 кг.
Дата издания: 01.06.2014
Язык: English
Размер: 231 x 165 x 23
Ссылка на Издательство: Link
Поставляется из: США
Описание: For those so-minded, the aftermath of an earthquake presents opportunities to intervene. Thus, in Gujarat, following the disaster of 2001, leaders were deposed, proletariats created, religious fundamentalism incubated, the state restructured, and industrial capital-ism expanded exponentially.
Rather than gazing in at those struggling in the ruins, as is commonplace in the literature, this book looks out from the affected region at those who came to intervene. Based on extensive research amid the dust and noise of reconstruction, the author focuses on the survivors and their interactions with death, history, and with those who came to use the shock of disaster to change the order of things.
Edward Simpson takes us deep into the experience of surviving a natural disaster. We see a society in mourning, further alienated by manufactured conditions of uncertainty and absurdity. We witness arguments about the past. What was important? What should be preserved? Was modernisation the cause of the disaster or the antidote?
As people were putting things back together, they also knew that future earthquakes were inevitable. How did they learn to live with this terrible truth? How have people in other times and places come to terms with the promise of another earthquake, knowing that things will fall apart again?

The Political Biography of an Earthquake: Aftermath and Amnesia in Gujarat, India, Simpson Edward