Living on

Christopher Dole is Professor of Anthropology at Amherst College. He is the author of Healing Secular Life: Loss and Devotion in Modern Turkey (2012) and co-editor of The Time of Catastrophe (2015).

"In this compelling ethnography of the long-term human consequences of catastrophe, Christopher Dole draws upon decades-long research to disturb and perturb what we think we understand about trauma, mental health disaster interventions, and the profoundly complicated intersection of human experiences of enduring social suffering with the vicissitudes of the humanitarian responses. Impressive and important!" -Arthur Kleinman, Harvard University "Evocative and nuanced, Living On offers an understanding of emerging mental health regimes and their integration into everyday life. Christopher Dole skillfully analyzes how Turkish mental health professionals transformed disaster into a psychiatric event, reshaping concepts of recovery and victimhood." -Salih Can Aciksoez, University of California, Los Angeles "A memorably rich account of how a fast disaster became a multifaceted slow disaster with culturally transformative effects. Staying with the disaster over time, Dole's is a story in which the state is dramatically present in its absence and a story of how an expert community rapidly mobilized to provide emergency care, scaling up and refiguring itself in the process. The leading characters, though, are disaster survivors-people 'left behind' in the long wake of disaster." -Kim Fortun, University of California, Irvine