Taming of Fate.

This book is about how extreme situations appearing to have a destructive potential can actually be used to produce meaningful individual and social lives. It is about the "taming of fate". This notion means and accounts for the ability of individuals and communities to rebuild their lives...

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Príomhchruthaitheoir: Macamo, S.
Formáid: Licensed eBooks
Teanga:Béarla
Foilsithe / Cruthaithe: CODESRIA 2017.
Rochtain ar líne:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvh8r1x1
Clár na nÁbhar:
  • 1. Coping with crises and disasters in southern Mozambique
  • part one. Theoretical and methodological issues
  • 2. Studying Africa
  • 3. Risk and social reality
  • 4. Methodological issues : contexts of action
  • part two. Studies in coping with disasters and crises
  • 5. When disaster strikes
  • 6. Conflicting interpretations of reality
  • 7. War refugees
  • 8. African Christian converts and the creation of locality
  • part three. Conclusion
  • 9. The taming of fate.