The neoliberal deluge : Hurricane Katrina, late capitalism, and the remaking of New Orleans / Cedric Johnson, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Johnson, Cedric, 1971-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emergency management--Louisiana--New Orleans.

Emergency management.

Hurricane Katrina, 2005.

Disasters--Louisiana--New Orleans.

Disasters.

Race discrimination--Louisiana--New Orleans.

Race discrimination.

Neoliberalism.

Louisiana--New Orleans.

Physical Description:

l, 406 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2011]

Summary:

This collection of twelve essays analyzes neoliberalism not as mere ideology, but as a really existing form of social organization, by focusing on the role neoliberalization had on the Hurricane Katrina disaster that struck New Orleans in 2005, though one essay also looks at the response to the SE Asian tsunami in Sri Lanka also in 2005. They do this because, argues editor Johnson (african american studies, U. Of Illinois, Chicago), cities have been a key target in neoliberal rollbacks. The book is organized into four thematic sections on governance, urbanity, planning, and inequality. Essays cover topics on disaster management, the erasure of race under neoliberalism, refugees and neoliberal self-governance, charter-schools, identity politics in the post-Katrina public housing movement, grassroots privatization, and sexual and racial inequality in rebuilding New Orleans. The contributors are mostly academics with backgrounds in sociology, political science, education, public policy, social geography, and media studies. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

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-Pagøn.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780816673247

0816673241

9780816673254

081667325X

OCLC:

719427957