Both compelling and timely, The Work of Disaster speaks to growing bodies of scholarship in anthropology and allied fields on disaster and its aftermath. It also deftly addresses the prescient debates within the global mental health and humanitarianism fields. This is a nuanced ethnography, written with beauty and care. * Sienna Craig, Dartmouth College * A searing and exquisite ethnography of what an earthquake destroys as well as what it produces. A must-read for anyone interested in disaster relief, the rise of global mental health, and the unexpected consequences of our efforts to care for others. * Lisa Stevenson, McGill University * Maurice Blanchot once wrote that to think the disaster is no longer to have any future in which to think. It is in the intimate, never-certain space of aftermathwhere rupture, repair, and complex forms of grieving and giving residethat Seale-Feldman pours her thought. The Work of Disaster thinks aftermath in the most delicate terms. * Todd Meyers, McGill University * "The Work of Disaster offers a compelling, innovative inquiry into the ways that disasters generate forms of life, meaning, and relationality as much as they destroy them. In this timely book, Seale-Feldman draws from extensive, multi-sited ethnographic research in tracking the modalities of hardship, care, and repair and the possibilities of an otherwise that emerged in the wake of the 2015 earthquake in Nepal." * Robert Desjarlais, Sarah Lawrence College *
