Making Things Happen

Jane Murphy Thomas is an independent consultant, practitioner, project manager and social anthropologist in projects for UN agencies, NGOs, governments, donor agencies, and consulting firms, specializing in anthropological approaches and community participation in conflict and disaster-prone locations.

• List of IllustrationsAnecdotes and EthnographiesPreface. Stakeholder RemarksAcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsIntroductionChapter 1. The Moment the Quake StruckChapter 2. Contexts of a Reconstruction SiteChapter 3. Community Participation: What Has Happened to It?Chapter 4. The Social ComponentChapter 5. Social and Technical IntegrationChapter 6. PERRP Design and ConstructionChapter 7. The Library ChallengeChapter 8. The Social Anthropology of ReconstructionConclusionAppendix: Schools and Health Facilities Constructed in the Pakistan Earthquake Reconstruction and Recovery Program (2006–2013)ReferencesIndex

“I find the book to be truly remarkable and absolutely stand-alone in what it describes and what it does. As opposed to the usual disheartening tale of the failure of a disaster reconstruction (or development) project, detailed here is a totally successful post-disaster reconstruction achievement due to the express involvement throughout of the anthropological perspective and community participation.” • Susanna Hoffman, Chair of The Risk and Disaster Commission of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnographic Sciences (IUAES)