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In the Shadow of Tungurahua relates the stories of the people of Penipe, Ecuador living in and between several villages around the volcano Tungurahua and two resettlement communities built for people displaced by government operations following volcanic eruptions in 1999 and 2006. The stories take shape in ways that influence prevailing ideas about how disasters are produced and reproduced, in this case by shifting assemblages of the state first formed during Spanish colonialism attempting to settle (make “legible”) and govern Indigenous and campesino populations and places. The disasters unfolding around Tungurahua at the turn of the 21st century also provide lessons in the humanitarian politics of disaster—questions of deservingness, reproducing inequality, and the reproduction of bare life. But this is also a story of how people responded to confront hardships and craft new futures, about forms of cooperation to cope with and adapt to disaster, and the potential for locally derived disaster recovery projects and politics. Read more ASIN B09RX4C446 XRay Not Enabled ISBN13 978-1978831582 Language English File size 10.1 MB Page Flip Enabled Publisher Rutgers University Press Word Wise Not Enabled Print length 237 pages Accessibility Learn more Screen Reader Supported Publication date October 14, 2022 Enhanced typesetting Enabled