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.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (457 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 life, politics, economy, and the built environment in New Orleans.The authors-a diverse group writing from the disciplines of sociology, political science, education, public policy, and media theory-argue that human agency and public policy choices were more at fault for the devastation and mass suffering experi

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-Pagon.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781452946962

1452946965

9780816678525

0816678529

OCLC:

768082769