"In 2009, after seismic tremors struck the Italian mountain town of L'Aquila, survivors were subjected to a "second earthquake"-invasive media attention and a relief effort that left them in a state of suspended citizenship as they were forcibly resettled and had to envision a n…
"This book addresses methodological challenges in contemporary approaches to conflict, violence and peace and development. Whilst classical approaches linked development with peace, security has become central to understandings of both war and peacetime. This book uniquely refle…
"This book addresses methodological challenges in contemporary approaches to conflict, violence and peace and development. Whilst classical approaches linked development with peace, security has become central to understandings of both war and peacetime. This book uniquely refle…
This edited volume explores and evaluates the roles of corruption in post-conflict peacebuilding. The problem of corruption has become important in war to peace transitions, eroding confidence in new democratic institutions, undermining economic development, diverting scarce pub…
"The capital of the Aztec empire, Tenochtitlan, was, in its era, one of the largest cities in the world. Built on an island in the middle of a shallow lake, its population numbered perhaps 150,000, with another 350,000 people in the urban network clustered around the lake shores…
"The capital of the Aztec empire, Tenochtitlan, was, in its era, one of the largest cities in the world. Built on an island in the middle of a shallow lake, its population numbered perhaps 150,000, with another 350,000 people in the urban network clustered around the lake shores…
This book examines the intersections between musical culture and a British project of reconstruction from the 1940s to the early 1960s, asking how gestures toward the past negotiated issues of recovery and renewal. In the wake of the Second World War, music became a privileged s…
"The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina is one of the darkest chapters is American history. A toxic combination of government neglect and socioeconomic inequality turned a crisis into a tragedy. The storm completely transformed one of the most beloved cities in America, leaving near…
A Haitian-American anthropologist makes sense of her homeland in the wake of the 2010 earthquake.
"Healing the Body Politic recounts the story of radical health activism from its origins in liberation theology and guerrilla medicine during El Salvador's twelve-year civil war, through development of a remarkable "popular health system" administered by lay providers in a forme…
"Mary C. Comerio provides detailed case studies of housing losses and rebuilding efforts in six recent urban disasters: Hurricane Hugo in South Carolina, Hurricane Andrew in Florida, the Loma Prieta and Northridge earthquakes in California, and the recent major earthquakes in Me…
