The gift of disaster: The commodification of good intentions in post-tsunami Sri Lanka

Disasters

Volumn 34, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2010, Pages

  Korf, Benedikt ^a   Habullah, Shahul ^b   Hollenbach, Pia ^a   Klem, Bart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PERADENIYA   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

Aid; Faith based development; Gift; Patrimonialism; Sri Lanka; Tsunami

Indexed keywords

DISASTER RELIEF; ETHNIC GROUP; GOODS EXCHANGE; INTERNATIONAL AID; POLITICAL DISCOURSE; POLITICAL INTEGRATION; SOCIAL CONFLICT; TSUNAMI;

ALTRUISM; ARTICLE; COMMODIFICATION; DISASTER; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; POLITICS; RELIEF WORK; RELIGION; SRI LANKA; TSUNAMI;

ALTRUISM; COMMODIFICATION; DISASTERS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; POLITICS; RELIEF WORK; RELIGION; SRI LANKA; TSUNAMIS;

ASIA; EURASIA; SOUTH ASIA; SRI LANKA;

EID: 71649097438     PISSN: 03613666     EISSN: 14677717     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7717.2009.01099.x     Document Type: Article

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