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The Neoliberal Deluge : Hurricane Katrina, Late Capitalism, and the Remaking of New Orleans /

"Katrina was not just a hurricane. The death, destruction, and misery wreaked on New Orleans cannot be blamed on nature's fury alone. This volume of essays locates the root causes of the 2005 disaster squarely in neoliberal restructuring and examines how pro-market reforms are reshaping li...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Johnson, Cedric, 1971- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2011.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : the neoliberal deluge / Cedric Johnson
  • From tipping point to metacrises: management, media, and Hurricane Katrina / Chris Russill and Chad Lavin
  • "We are seeing people we didn't know exist" : Katrina and the neoliberal erasure of race / Eric Ishiwata
  • Making citizens in magnaville : Katrina refugees and neoliberal self-governance / Geoffrey Whitehall and Cedric Johnson
  • Mega-events, the superdome, and the return of the repressed in New Orleans / Paul Passavant
  • Whose choice? a critical race perspective on charter schools / Adrienne Dixson
  • Black and white, unite and fight? identity politics and New Orleans's post-Katrina public housing movement / John Arena
  • Charming accommodations: progressive urbanism meets privatization in Brad Pitt's Make It Right Foundation / Cedric Johnson
  • Laboratorization and the "green" rebuilding of New Orleans's lower ninth ward / Barbara L. Allen
  • Squandered resources? grounded realities of recovery in post-tsunami Sri Lanka / Kanchana Ruwanpura
  • How shall we remember New Orleans? comparing news coverage of post- Katrina New Orleans and the 2008 midwest floods / Linda Robertson
  • The forgotten ones: Black women in the wake of Katrina / Avis Jones-Deweever
  • Hazardous constructions: mexican immigrant masculinity and the rebuilding of New Orleans / Nicole Trujillo-Pagon.