Recovering inequality : Hurricane Katrina, the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906, and the aftermath of disaster /

<P>A lethal mix of natural disaster, dangerously flawed construction, and reckless human actions devastated San Francisco in 1906 and New Orleans in 2005. Eighty percent of the built environments of both cities were destroyed in the catastrophes, and the poor, the elderly, and the medically in...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kroll-Smith, J. Stephen, 1947-
Formato: Documento de Gobierno Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2018.
Colección:Katrina bookshelf.
Temas:
1906-2005
Emergency management > United States.
Disaster relief > Social aspects > United States.
Equality > United States.
Hurricane Katrina, 2005 > Social aspects.
San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Calif., 1906 > Social aspects.
Secours aux victimes de catastrophes > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Ouragan Katrina, 2005 > Aspect social.
Tremblement de terre de San Francisco, Calif., 1906 > Aspect social.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban
Disaster relief > Social aspects.
Emergency management.
Equality.
Race relations.
Social aspects.
Social conditions.
United States > Race relations.
United States > Social conditions.
États-Unis > Relations raciales.
États-Unis > Conditions sociales.
California.
United States.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro; Acknowledgments; Foreword by Anthony Oliver-Smith; From Whence Recovery? A Prelude; I. An Introduction; 1. "The Earth Dragon" and "Miss Katrina"; 2. Geographies of Inequality: A Sketch of Two Cities Spanning a Century; II. Deranging and Rekindling; 3. The Great Derangements; 4. Fashioning "the Looter": Rekindling Racial and Class Kinds; III. Rebooting Inequality, the Road to Recovery; 5. Disaster Relief: Parsing the Vernaculars of Worthiness; 6. Spatial Accumulation by Dispossession: Two Attempts to Rob the Marginal; 7. One City Necessary, One City Expendable; By Way of Closing; Notes.

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