The Continuing Storm : Learning from Katrina / Kai Erikson and Lori Peek.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Erikson, Kai, 1931-2025, author.

Peek, Lori A., author.

Series:

Katrina bookshelf.

The Katrina Bookshelf Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Disaster victims--United States.

Disaster victims.

Disasters--Social aspects--United States.

Disasters.

Hurricane Katrina, 2005--Social aspects.

Hurricane Katrina, 2005.

Natural disasters--Social aspects--United States.

Natural disasters.

United States--Social conditions--21st century.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (159 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Austin, Texas : University of Texas Press, [2022]

Summary:

More than fifteen years later, Hurricane Katrina maintains a strong grip on the American imagination. The reason is not simply that Katrina was an event of enormous scale, although it certainly was by any measure one of the most damaging storms in American history. But, quite apart from its lethality and destructiveness, Katrina retains a place in living memory because it is one of the most telling disasters in our recent national experience, revealing important truths about our society and ourselves. The final volume in the award-winning Katrina Bookshelf series Higher Ground reflects upon what we have learned about Katrina and about America. Kai Erikson and Lori Peek expand our view of the disaster by assessing its ongoing impact on individual lives and across the wide-ranging geographies where displaced New Orleanians landed after the storm. Such an expanded view, the authors argue, is critical for understanding the human costs of catastrophe across time and space. Concluding with a broader examination of disasters in the years since Katrina—including COVID-19—The Continuing Storm is a sobering meditation on the duration of a catastrophe that continues to exact steep costs in human suffering.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Prelude

Part I. A Hurricane Known as Katrina

1. Along the Shores of the Gulf

2. On the Streets of New Orleans

Part II. Locating Katrina

3. In Time

4. In Space

Part III. Katrina as Human Experience

5. Before: Seeking Out the Most Vulnerable

6. During: Being Battered by the Storm

7. After: The Pains of Displacement

Postlude

Acknowledgments

Notes

About the Authors

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Other Format:

Print version: Erikson, Kai The Continuing Storm

ISBN:

1-4773-2435-6

OCLC:

1312161630