Hurricane Katrina in transatlantic perspective / edited by Romain Huret and Randy J. Sparks.

"'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 of manmade factors shaped the s...

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Other Authors: Huret, Romain
Sparks, Randy J.
Language:English
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2014]
Subjects:
Hurricane Katrina, 2005 > Social aspects > Louisiana > New Orleans.
Disasters > Louisiana > New Orleans > History > 21st century.
Collective memory > Louisiana > New Orleans.
Hurricane Katrina, 2005 > Public opinion.
Disasters > Social aspects > United States > History > 21st century.
Disasters > Political aspects > United States > History > 21st century.
Emergency management > United States > History > 21st century.
Cyclonic Storms.
Disasters.
Public Opinion.
Socioeconomic Factors.
Survivors.
Louisiana.
New Orleans (La.) > Geography.
New Orleans (La.) > Social conditions > 21st century.
New Orleans (La.) > Public opinion.
Physical Description:vii, 200 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • 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.