How can we assess the ability of a place to respond to challenges like migration, recession and disease? Places which seem similar can respond very differently, and with varying degrees of success, to external threats and to the interventions designed to manage them.
In this magisterial work, drawing on decades of research, Sandra Wallman explores how we can measure and compare the resilience of communities, looking in detail at neighbourhoods...
Sandra Wallman is an Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at University College London. She is the author of Kampala Women Getting by: Wellbeing in the Time of AIDS and Eight London Households.
"Fieldwork, comparison, team collaboration, longitudinal research – all in one study, and one book! There is a sophisticated ethnographic eye, and a productive synthesis of perspectives from social anthropology and related fields. As anthropologists renew their methodology, to face widening practical and theoretical challenges, they can learn much from Sandra Wallman’s team." --Ulf Hannerz, Professor Emeritus of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University and author of Cultural Complexity (1992), Transnational Connections...
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