The Asian tsunami in December 2004 severely affected people in coastal regions all around the Indian Ocean. This book provides the first in-depth ethnography of the disaster and its effects on a fishing village in Tamil Nadu, India. The author explores how the villagers have lived with the tsunami in the years succeeding it and actively worked to gradually regain a sense of certainty and confidence in their environment in the face of disempowering disaster. What appears is a remarkable local recovery process in which the survivors have interwoven the tsunami and the everyday in a series of subtle practices and theorisations, resulting in a complex and continuous recreation of village life. By showing the composite nature of the tsunami as an event, the book adds new theoretical insight into the anthropology of natural disaster and recovery.
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Acknowledgements
Chapter 1. Processing Disaster and Recovery
- The Disaster and the Everyday
- Local Worlds and Recovery
- Figure and Ground in Disaster Anthropology
- Transformation and Future Trajectories
- Book Outline
Chapter 2. The Field: Entrance and Emergence
- Arrival
- Emergent Fields
- Mapping Place and People
- Fieldwork on Foot
- A Walk around the Village
- The Lay of the Land
Chapter 3. The Dwelling: Homes and Hazards
- Build Back Better
- Bereavement and Moving on
- Homing In
Chapter 4. On Forecasting: Wind and Water
- Weather or Not
- The Landfall of Disaster
- Dropping the Anchor
- Forecasts and Precautions
- In a Climate of Changing Tides
Chapter 5. Responsibility: Agents and Agencies
- Local Level Humanitarian Support
- On the Limits of Community
- Recuperating Subjects
Chapter 6. Confusing Hardships: Onslaught and Opportunity
- In Need of Repair
- Certifying the Future
- The Ties That Bind
- Rallying for Safety
- Projecting Progress
Chapter 7. Materialisations of Loss: Monument and Memory
- Monumental Memories
- The Materiality of Loss
- On New Plots
Chapter 8. Everyday Life: Tsunami Time
Bibliography
Index
Over de auteur
Frida Hastrup is a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen. She holds a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Copenhagen, and has conducted long-term fieldwork in South India. Her current research addresses local responses to environmental changes in the Bay of Bengal area, with a specific focus on flooding, cyclones and coastal erosion.
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