Disasters and Life in Anticipation of Slow Calamity

The book provides insights into community narratives concerning life in the face of creeping calamities through a case study from the Colombian Andes. It sets out to make sense of the lived experience of disasters that are slowly unfolding as well disasters that have not yet occurred.

This book explores what it means to live in anticipation of disaster and in anticipation of an uprooting of communi...