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A House of One's Own - The Moral Economy of Post-Disaster Aid in El Salvador (Hardcover)
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A House of One's Own - The Moral Economy of Post-Disaster Aid in El Salvador (Hardcover)
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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.
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