{"product_id":"9780226845395-work-of-disaster","title":"The Work of Disaster","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCrisis and Care Along a Himalayan Fault Line\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA compelling portrait of post-disaster imaginaries of repair in Nepal.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In a world marked by escalating disasters, the forms that care takes are increasingly fraught. In this powerful book, anthropologist Aidan Seale-Feldman focuses on Nepal, where in 2015 a 7.8-magnitude earthquake and equally powerful aftershock struck the country’s central region. The disaster claimed more than nine thousand lives and inspired a surge of humanitarian concern for the mental health of Nepali people. Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, \u003ci\u003eThe Work of Disaster\u003c\/i\u003e examines the possibilities generated by disaster, as well as the vexed relationship between crisis and care.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Moving between NGO offices, mountain trails, therapeutic interventions, and affected villages, Seale-Feldman tells the story of an emergent “mental health crisis” and the forms of care that followed in the disaster’s wake. She also analyzes the changes emergency services bring about in the places they seek to assist, the challenges of psychiatric support provided by international organizations, and the place of mental health counseling in a modern biopolitical reality. \u003ci\u003eThe Work of Disaster\u003c\/i\u003e reveals the simultaneous violence and gentleness of humanitarian encounters, engaging along the way with broader debates about world making and the ethics of care.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56646890881398,"sku":"9780226845395","price":26.13,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_38203411_d175a565-8a64-4e5c-98db-553064601681.jpg?v=1763801052","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780226845395-work-of-disaster","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}