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Author Sliwinski, Alicia, author

Title A house of one's own : the moral economy of post-disaster aid in El Salvador / Alicia Sliwinski
Published Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2018
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Description 1 online resource (x, 251 pages) : illustrations
Contents Introduction: disasters in the Valle de las Hamacas -- Theoretical underpinnings: the gift in the moral grammar of humanitarianism -- Chronicles of an earthquake -- The time of reconstruction: actors, challenges, and ideals -- Daily life on a pots-disaster reconstruction site -- Engagement and estrangement in La Hermandad -- Weathering the moral economy of aid
Summary What happens to people after an earthquake destroys their homes? What is daily life like under a humanitarian regime? Is aid a gift or is it a form of power? A House of One's Own explores these enduring questions as they unfold in a Salvadoran town in the aftermath of the 2001 earthquakes. In a lively, intimate account of the social complexities that arise in post-disaster settings, Alicia Sliwinski recounts the trajectories of fifty families who received different forms of humanitarian aid, from emergency assistance to housing reconstruction. Drawing on seminal anthropological theories about gift giving and moral economy, the author thoughtfully discusses the complications and challenges of humanitarian action that aims to rebuild communities through participation. At the crossroads of disaster studies and the anthropology of humanitarianism, the book's insights speak to timely and recurring issues that relocated populations face in regimented and morally charged resettlement initiatives. A richly textured, analytically nuanced ethnography, A House of One's Own is a perceptive firsthand account of what happens on the ground in a post-disaster setting
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-244) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject El Salvador Earthquakes, El Salvador, 2001.
Earthquake relief -- Moral and ethical aspects -- El Salvador
Humanitarian assistance -- Moral and ethical aspects -- El Salvador
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
El Salvador
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780773552937
0773552936
9780773552944
0773552944