03356nam 2200625 450 991081443410332120200520144314.00-253-01139-60-253-01150-7(CKB)2550000001166564(EBL)1572122(OCoLC)864744479(SSID)ssj0001081852(PQKBManifestationID)12415016(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001081852(PQKBWorkID)11090730(PQKB)10124920(MdBmJHUP)muse33670(Au-PeEL)EBL1572122(CaPaEBR)ebr10814563(CaONFJC)MIL547923(MiAaPQ)EBC1572122(EXLCZ)99255000000116656420131219d2014 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe golden wave culture and politics after Sri Lanka's tsunami disaster /Michele Ruth GamburdBloomington, Indiana :Indiana University Press,2014.©20141 online resource (234 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-253-01138-8 1-306-16672-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 Story7 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; WIn 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, econDisaster reliefSri LankaTsunamisSri LankaSri LankaSocial conditions21st centurySri LankaPolitics and government21st centuryDisaster reliefTsunamis363.34988095493Gamburd Michele Ruth1965-1631487MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910814434103321The golden wave4005617UNINA