1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910453315703321

Autore

Gamburd Michele Ruth <1965->

Titolo

The golden wave : culture and politics after Sri Lanka's tsunami disaster / / Michele Ruth Gamburd

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, Indiana : , : Indiana University Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-253-01139-6

0-253-01150-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (234 p.)

Disciplina

363.34988095493

Soggetti

Disaster relief - Sri Lanka

Tsunamis - Sri Lanka

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations, Names, and Sinhala Terms; Introduction: Political Ethnography of Disaster; Wijitha's Story; 1 That Day: Chaos and Solidarity; Dr. Priyanka's Story; 2 Deaths: Fate and Vulnerability; Pradeep and Manoj's Story; 3 Short-Term Camps: Chaos and the Crafting of Order; Sumendra's Story; 4 Housing: Temporary Shelters, Permanent Homes, and the Buffer Zone; Lalitha's Story; 5 Dangerous Liaisons: The Power, Peril, and Politics of Mediating between Donors and Recipients; Jagath's Story; 6 Business Recovery: Tourism and Construction; Dayawansa's Story

7 Reconstructing Class: Discourse on Theft, Loot, Cheating, and GiftsFazmina's Story; 8 The Politics of Corruption: Accusations and Rebuttals; Tharindu's Story; 9 Citizenship and Ethnicity: The Tsunami and the Civil War; Conclusion; Notes; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W

Sommario/riassunto

In December 2004 the Indian Ocean tsunami devastated coastal regions of Sri Lanka. Six months later, Michele Ruth Gamburd returned to the village where she had been conducting research for many years and began collecting residents' stories of the disaster and its aftermath: the chaos and loss of the flood itself; the sense of community and leveling



of social distinctions as people worked together to recover and regroup; and the local and national politics of foreign aid as the country began to rebuild. In The Golden Wave, Gamburd describes how the catastrophe changed social identities, econ

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910146196903321

Titolo

Petrarca in barocco : cantieri petrarcheschi : due seminari romani / / a cura di Amedeo Quondam [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Roma, : Bulzoni, c2004

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxii, 469 p. )

Collana

Biblioteca del Cinquecento / "Europa delle corti," Centro studi sulle società di anticoregime ; ; 108

Altri autori (Persone)

QuondamAmedeo <1943->

Disciplina

851/.1

Soggetti

Italian poetry - 15th century - History and criticism

Italian poetry - 16th century - History and criticism

Italian poetry - 17th century - History and criticism

Conference papers and proceedings.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Proceedings.

"Questo volume raccoglie gli atti di due seminari romani che si sono svolti nell'auntunno del 2001 e in quello del 2002; e precisamente: ... 30 ottobre 2001 ... 23-25 ottobre 2002"--P. i.

Half title: Ministero per i beni e le attività culturali. Direzione generale per i beni librari e gli istituti culturali; Comitato nazionale per il settimo centenario della nascita di Francesco Petrarca; Università di Roma "La Sapienza," Dipartimento di italianistica e spettacolo.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.