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What is the state's responsibility to its people in the aftermath of a natural hazard based disaster? The book sets out to address this seemingly simple question, after large scale floods devastated Pakistan in 2010 and then again in 2011. Along the way it delves into rich detail about people's everday encounters with the state in Pakistan, uncovers postcolonial discourses on rights of citizenship and dispels mainstream understanding of Islamist groups as presenting an alternative development paradigm to the state. Based on detailed ethnographic fieldwork, In the Wake of the Disaster forces the reader to look beyond narratives of Pakistan as the perennial 'failing state' falling victim to an imminent 'Islamist takeover'. The book shifts the conversation from hysteria and sensationalism surrounding Pakistan to the everyday. In doing so it transforms our understanding of contemporary disasters.

This paper examines the cycle of a hydraulic infrastructure producing an unequal state, using space, every flood year, for what seems like perpetuity. Instead of theorising "elite capture" of the state, as a significant factor in producing inequality in postcolonial states the argument being advanced here is purposefully different. It argues that in carefully re-distributing flood risk, socio-technical interventions use space to (re) produce an unequal state effect at various scales. Thus, hydraulic infrastructures produce "dominant" and "peripheral" space, every flood year, continuing Sisyphean cycles of unequal state production. Drawing on evidence from the southern province of Sindh, in Pakistan, this paper examines a drainage project as a technique of government through which the state continues its production of inequality using "dominant" and "peripheral" space. These spaces of privilege and marginality—at a municipal, provincial, national and beyond level—are produced by the state and are then also complicit in producing the state. The argument in this paper demonstrates that in being subjected to previous productions of space, and the materialities of past interventions, while producing new ones, the production of state power in the postcolony is also scripted by broader unequal histories of power.

Is it possible to separate humanitarian action from politics? Drawing on the expertise of practitioners and researchers, and balancing theoretical insights with empirical grounding, field examples and policy recommendations, this book is an essential guide to the thorny interplay between what are too often considered as separate worlds.

Chapter 1. Introduction to Displacement Studies: Knowledges, Concepts, Practices; Peter Adey, Janet C. Bowstead, Katherine Brickell, Vandana Desai, Mike Dolton, Alasdair Pinkerton, Ayesha Siddiqi -- Section One: Conceptualising Displacement -- Chapter 2. Mobilities and Displacement; Mimi Sheller -- Chapter 3. Political Ecologies of Displacement; Rebecca Elmhirst -- Chapter 4. Displacement Economies: A Relational Approach to Displacement; Amanda Hammar -- Chapter 5. The Slow and the Fast Violence of Displacement; James A. Tyner -- Chapter 6. Assembling Climate Change-Related Displacement; Leonie Tuitjer -- Chapter 7. Affect and Displacement; Mark Griffiths -- Chapter 8. Protection of Displaced Persons and the Rights-Based Approach; Rónán McDermott, Pat Gibbons, and Sinéad McGrath -- Chapter 9. Queering Displacement/The Displacement of Queers; Scott McKinnon -- Chapter 10. Gendered and Feminist Approaches to Displacement; Katherine Brickell and Jessie Speer -- Chapter 11. 'Race,' Ethnicity and Forced Displacement; Luisa Feline Freier, Matthew D. Bird, and Soledad Castillo Jara -- Chapter 12. Conceptualising Postcolonial Displacement Beyond Aid and Protection; Jose Jowel Canuday -- Section Two: Technologies of Displacement -- Chapter 13. Intervention: Displacement Aesthetics; Kaya Barry and Pete Adey -- Chapter 14. The Artwashing of Gentrification and Social Cleansing; Stephen Pritchard -- Chapter 15. Taking the Weather with You: Remittances, Translocality, and the Climate Migrant Within; Laurie Parsons -- Chapter 16. Barbed Displacement: Walls to the Disciplined Migrant; Bénédicte Michalon -- Chapter 17. Technologies of Deportation; William Walters -- Chapter 18. Street Technologies of Displacement: Disposable Bodies, Dispossessed Space; Elijah Adiv Edelman -- Chapter 19. Olympic Favela Evictions in Rio de Janeiro: The Consolidation of a Neoliberal Displacement Regime; James Freeman -- Section Three: Journeys of Displacement -- Chapter 20. Intervention: Women's Narratives from Refugee Camps in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq; Nazand Begikhani -- Chapter 21. Constraints and Transgressions in Journeys of Displacement; Joris Schapendonk and Milena Belloni -- Chapter 22. Migrants' Displacements at the Internal Frontiers of Europe; Martina Tazzioli -- Chapter 23. Carceral Journeys; Nick Gill and Oriane Simon -- Chapter 24. Precarious Migrations and Maritime Displacement; Vicki Squire and Maurice Stierl -- Chapter 25. Maintaining Health on the Move: Access and Availability for Displaced People; Jennifer Cole -- Section Four: Traces of Displacement -- Chapter 26. Intervention: Disasters and Displacement: When There Is No Time to Stop; Ayesha Siddiqi -- Chapter 27. Antipodean Architectures of Displacement; Anoma Pieris -- Chapter 28. Spiritual Geographies of Displacement and Resilience; Julia Christensen and Veronica Madsen -- Chapter 29. Mapping Trajectories of Displacement; Nishat Awan -- Chapter 30. Uncovering Internally Displaced People in the Global North through Administrative Data: Case Studies of Residential Displacement in the UK; Janet C. Bowstead, Stuart Hodkinson, and Andy Turner -- Section Five: Governing Displacement -- Chapter 31. Intervention: Forensic Oceanography: Tracing Violence within and Against the Mediterranean Frontier's Aesthetic Regime; Charles Heller and Lorenzo Pezzani -- Chapter 32. Governing the Displaced: Contradictory Constellations of Actors, Ideas, and Strategies; Lama Tawakkol, Ali Bhagat, Sarah Sharma -- Chapter 33. Bureaucracies of Displacement: From Immigrants' Social and Physical Exclusion to Their Judicial Removal; Cecilia Menjívar and Andrea Gómez Cervantes -- Chapter 34. Police, Bailiffs, and Hired Hands: Researching the Distribution and Dissolution of Eviction Enforcement; Alexander G. Baker -- Chapter 35. Governing the Unwanted: Measuring European Migration Enforcement at Street Level; Lisa Marie Borrelli -- Chapter 36. A Forced Displacement and Atrocity Crime Nexus: Displacement as Transfer, Annihilation, and Homogenisation; Andrew R. Basso -- Section Six: More-Than-Human Displacements -- Chapter 37. Intervention: Flower Power: Khmer Women's Protests against Displacement in Cambodia and the United States; Katherine Brickell -- Chapter 38. Animals, People, and Places in Displacement; Benjamin Thomas White -- Chapter 39. Energy on the Move: Displaced Objects in Knowledge and Practice; Jamie Cross, Craig Martin, and G. Arno Verhoeven -- Chapter 40. Smartphones: Digital Infrastructures of the Displaced; Koen Leurs and Jeffrey Patterson -- Chapter 41. Family Photographs in Displacement; Penelope Pitt -- Chapter 42. Displaced Home-Objects in Homing Experiences; Mastoureh Fathi -- Chapter 43. The Role of Design in Displacement: Moving beyond Quick-Fix Solutions in Rebuilding Housing after Disaster; Esther Charlesworth and John Fien -- Section Seven: Representing Displacement -- Chapter 44: Intervention: Activism, Research and Film-Making: Fighting for the Right to Housing in Bucharest, Romania; Michele Lancione -- Chapter 45. How Not to Eat Human Stories: Ruts, Complicities and Methods in Visual Representations of Refugees; Dominika Blachnicka-Ciacek -- Chapter 46. Displacements of Experience: The Case of Immersion and Virtual Reality; Emma Bond -- Chapter 47. Displacement in Contemporary Art; John Potts -- Chapter 48. Reclaiming Safe Spaces: Arts-Based Research, Advocacy, and Social Justice; Nelli Stavropoulou -- Section Eight: Resisting Displacement -- Chapter 49. Intervention: An Interview with Anna Minton; Vandana Desai -- Chapter 50. 'Housing is a Human Right. Here to Stay, Here to Fight': Resisting Housing Displacement through Gendered, Legal and Tenured Activism; Mel Nowicki -- Chapter 51. Contesting Displacement through Radical Emplacement and Occupations in Austerity Europe; Mara Ferreri -- Chapter 52. Legal Geographies of Resistance to Gentrification and Displacement: Lessons from the Aylesbury Estate in London; Loretta Lees and Phil Hubbard -- Chapter 53: Local Faith Communities and Responses to Displacement; Susanna Trotta and Olivia Wilkinson -- Chapter 54. Hosting the Displaced: From Sanctuary Cities to Hospitable Homes; Jonathan Darling -- Chapter 55. Food and the Politics of Refuge: The Transformative Power of Asylum Seeker and Refugee Food Initiatives; Fiona Murphy.