Individual and social adaptions to human vulnerability. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Donald C. Wood.
• Editors: Wood, Donald C
• Contents: Introduction: Individual and Social Adaptations to Vulnerability Chapter 1. "We're Living from Loan to Loan": Pastoral Vulnerability and the Cashmere-Debt Cycle in Mongolia; Daniel J. Murphy Chapter 2. Living Within the Narrative of Microfinance: Vulnerability, Well-Intentioned Debt, and the Individualization of Social Problems in Quito, Equador; Megan B. Hinrichsen Chapter 3. Being an Entrepreneur and Feeling Vulnerable: Encountering Fragility in the Construction Business in the North of Italy; Elena Sischarenco Chapter 4. Coping with Coffee Rust in Oaxaca, Mexico: Vulnerability and the Impact of Fair Trade on Smallholders' Adaptive Capacity; Sarah Lyon Chapter 5. Fishers, Vulnerability and the Political Economy of Dispossession and Reconstruction In Post-Tsunami Tamil Nadu; Raja Swamy Chapter 6. Managing Meagre Means and Reciprocal Reputations: Women's Everyday Survival Tactics in a Malawian Village; Janneke Verheijen Chapter 7. Intimate Economy of Vulnerability: Transactional Relationships Between Western Expatriates and Southeast Asian Domestic Workers in Hong Kong's Wanchai; Lai Wo Chapter 8. Economic Sovereignty in Volatile Times: Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians' Strategies Supporting Economic Stability; Courtney Lewis Chapter 9. American World Visions of Vulnerability: The Sacred, the Secular, and Roots of Evangelical American Aid; Kari B. Henquinet Chapter 10. Socio-Economic Development and Changing Reasons for Using Desert Kites to Kill Gazelles; Serge Svizzero and Clement A. Tisdell.
• Publisher Details: United Kingdom : Emerald Publishing
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 301; Anthropology; Vulnerability (Personality trait)
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781787691773; 9781787691759
• Related ISBNs: 9781787691766
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