Hurricane Katrina in Transatlantic Perspective /

"'There is no such thing as a 'natural' disaster, ' writes Romain Huret in his introduction to this multidisciplinary study of the events surrounding and the legacy of Hurricane Katrina. Though nature produced Katrina's rising waters and destructive winds, a vast array...

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Otros Autores: Sparks, Randy J., Huret, Romain
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Social conditions.
Social aspects.
Public opinion.
Geography.
Emergency management.
Disasters > Social aspects.
Disasters.
Collective memory.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
Catastrophes > Aspect politique > États-Unis > Histoire > 21e siecle.
Catastrophes > Aspect social > États-Unis > Histoire > 21e siecle.
Ouragan Katrina, 2005 > Opinion publique.
Memoire collective > Louisiane > La Nouvelle-Orleans.
Catastrophes > Louisiane > La Nouvelle-Orleans > Histoire > 21e siecle.
Ouragan Katrina, 2005 > Aspect social > Louisiane > La Nouvelle-Orleans.
Emergency management > United States > History > 21st century.
Disasters > Political aspects > United States > History > 21st century.
Disasters > Social aspects > United States > History > 21st century.
Hurricane Katrina, 2005 > Public opinion.
Collective memory > Louisiana > New Orleans.
Disasters > Louisiana > New Orleans > History > 21st century.
Hurricane Katrina, 2005 > Social aspects > Louisiana > New Orleans.
United States.
Louisiana > New Orleans.
New Orleans (La.) > Public opinion.
New Orleans (La.) > Social conditions > 21st century.
New Orleans (La.) > Geography.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Romain Huret
  • "Two centuries of paradox" : the geography of New Orleans's African American population, from antebellum to postdiluvian times / Richard Campanella
  • Explaining the unexplainable : Hurricane Katrina, FEMA, and the Bush administration / Romain Huret
  • Picturing the catastrophe : news photographs in the first weeks after Katrina / Jean Kempf
  • "Wilt thou judge the bloody city? Yea, thou shalt show her all her abominations" : Hurricane Katrina as a providential catastrophe / James Boyden
  • Naturalizing disaster : neoliberalism, cultural racism, and depoliticization in the era of Katrina / Andrew Diamond
  • Reformers, preservationists, patients, and planners : embodied histories and charitable populism in the post-disaster controversy over a public hospital / Anne M. Lovell
  • The political economy of invisibility in twenty-first-century New Orleans : security, hospitality, and the post-disaster city / Thomas Jessen Adams
  • Faith, hip-hop, and charity : brass-band morphology in post-Katrina New Orleans / Bruce Boyd Raeburn
  • Memory lives in New Orleans : the process and politics of commemoration / Sara Le Menestrel
  • Why Mardi Gras matters / Randy J. Sparks.

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