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Verfasst von: | Naraindas, Harish [VerfasserIn]  |
Titel: | 'Build back better' and the creation of a 'psychic economy of want' in Post-Tsunami Sri Lanka |
Verf.angabe: | Harish Naraindas |
E-Jahr: | 2015 |
Jahr: | 28 Nov, 2015 |
Umfang: | 7 S. |
Fussnoten: | Gesehen am 12.12.2017 |
Titel Quelle: | Enthalten in: Economic and political weekly |
Ort Quelle: | Mumbai, 1966 |
Jahr Quelle: | 2015 |
Band/Heft Quelle: | 50(2015), 48, Seite 28-64 |
ISSN Quelle: | 2349-8846 |
Abstract: | This paper suggests that post-disaster assistance in the Global South is a version of "slum development" on a compressed scale in terms of time and an expanded one in terms of resources. The index of this is the slogan "build back better." It implies that communities affected by a disaster are a priori a dilapidated lot, and disasters like the 2004 tsunami are a great cleansing. It allows aid agencies that arrive bearing gifts like Santa Claus an opportunity to transform a blighted existence into a civilised one. Each of them arrives not only with a heraldic logo but also with their own plans to build back better. The result is a plethora of architectural styles and ownership patterns leading to a realigning of relations among victims, and between victims and non-victims. This realigning, in a climate of sudden and large influx of money and material goods, rather than assuaging their loss and grief, creates a chimera of plenitude that ironically leads to an elusive but persistent and widespread sense of discontent across different segments of society. |
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| Volltext: http://www.epw.in/journal/2015/48/special-articles/build-back-better-and-creation-psychic-economy-want-post-tsunami |
Datenträger: | Online-Ressource |
Sprache: | eng |
K10plus-PPN: | 1566287227 |
Verknüpfungen: | → Zeitung |
'Build back better' and the creation of a 'psychic economy of want' in Post-Tsunami Sri Lanka / Naraindas, Harish [VerfasserIn]; 28 Nov, 2015 (Online-Ressource)
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