The Political Biography of an Earthquake: Aftermath and Amnesia in Gujarat, India Book Information:

For those so-minded, the aftermath of an earthquake presents opportunities to intervene. Thus, in Gujarat, following the disaster of 2001, leaders were deposed, proletariats created, religious fundamentalism incubated, the state restructured, and industrial capitalism expanded exponentially.Rather than gazing in at those struggling in the ruins, as is commonplace in the literature, this book looks out from the affected region at those who came to intervene. Based on extensive research amid the dust and noise of reconstruction, the author focuses on the survivors and their interactions with death, history, and with those who came to use the shock of disaster to change the order of things. Edward Simpson takes us deep into the experience of surviving a natural disaster. We see a society in mourning, further alienated by manufactured conditions of uncertainty and absurdity. We witness arguments about the past. What was important? What should be preserved? Was modernisation the cause of the disaster or the antidote?As people were putting things back together, they also knew that future earthquakes were inevitable. How did they learn to live with this terrible truth? How have people in other times and places come to terms with the promise of another earthquake, knowing that things will fall apart again? Acknowledgements Notes on the regionIntroductionSection 1: Chai wallahs and the carpetbagger Sublime Retrospective anatomy Aftermath epistemology Hyperbolic capitalism The carpetbagger Notes on aftermathSection 2: Earthquake politics Regime change View from the east Borderlands (Re)birth of an iconSection 3: Villages 11. Village adoption Service Jihadi, dog and secularist Building politicsIntegral humanism Section 4: The seven crows The place of Bhuj Where to start? Planners G numbers The unbearable intensity of reduction Section 5: The work of mourning Nostalgia History making Rituals of reconstruction Umashankars great escape Slow death Values of citizenshipSection 6: Hope All is good? Explanation Inhabitation Section 7: Amnesia Shocks of colonialism Earthquake diaspora Nehrus village (twice) Planning to forget MemoryAfterword Notes References IndexKey Features Rather than gazing in at those struggling in the ruins, as is commonplace in the literature, this book looks out from the affected region at those who came to intervene. It is the only ethnographic of the 2001 Gujarat earthquake, and it one of the very few extended case studies of a natural disaster that provides an on-the-ground approach to understanding the social/political/economic/religious interests at play. It is a significant contribution to humanitarian literature and humanitarian ethnography. It contains several photographs and maps across the book to enrich the study.

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Paperback

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English

• Number of Pages :

330 pages

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0199453683

• The Political Biography of an Earthquake: Aftermath and Amnesia in Gujarat, India Published On :

17 Aug 2014

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