After Katrina : Race, Neoliberalism, and the End of the American Century / by Anna Hartnell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hartnell, Anna, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental policy--United States.

Environmental policy.

Capitalism--Social aspects--United States.

Capitalism.

Neoliberalism--United States.

Neoliberalism.

Social change--United States.

Social change.

African Americans--Louisiana--New Orleans (La.)--Social conditions.

African Americans.

Hurricane Katrina, 2005--Social aspects--Louisiana--New Orleans.

Hurricane Katrina, 2005.

United States--Social policy--1993-.

United States.

United States--Race relations--Political aspects.

New Orleans (La.)--Environmental conditions.

New Orleans (La.).

New Orleans (La.)--Social conditions.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource.)

Place of Publication:

Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [2017]

Summary:

Through the lens provided by the tenth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, After Katrina argues that the city of New Orleans emerges as a key site for exploring competing narratives of US decline and renewal at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Deploying an interdisciplinary approach to explore cultural representations of the post-storm city, Anna Hartnell suggests that New Orleans has been reimagined as a laboratory for a racialized neoliberalism, and as such might be seen as a terminus of the American dream. This US disaster zone has unveiled a network of social and environmental crises that demonstrate that prospects of social mobility have dwindled as environmental degradation and coastal erosion emerge as major threats not just to the quality of life but to the possibility of life in coastal communities across America and the world. And yet After Katrina also suggests that New Orleans culture offers a way of thinking about the United States in terms that transcend the binary of national renewal or declension. The post-Hurricane city thus emerges as a flashpoint for reflecting on the contemporary United States.

Contents:

Introduction: "Is this America?"

Part 1. American time

New Orleans and empire : legacies from the "Age of Revolution"

New Orleans and Americanization : "progress," "decline," and tourism in the twentieth century

Part 2. Katrina time

Documenting Katrina : the return of the "real"

Resisting Katrina : the right to return

Part 3. New Orleans time

New Orleans and water : re-mapping ecologies of the Gulf South

New Orleans and the nation : legacies from the future.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781438464190

1438464193

OCLC:

964624750