Rethinking disaster recovery : a Hurricane Katrina retrospective / edited by Jeannie Haubert.

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Rethinking Disaster Recovery focuses attention on the social inequalities that existed on the Gulf Coast before Hurricane Katrina and how they have been magnified or altered since the storm. With a focus on social axes of power such as gender, sexuality, race, and class, this book tells new and pers...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Haubert, Jeannie (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2015]
Subjects:
Hurricane Katrina, 2005 > Social aspects.
Disaster victims > Louisiana > New Orleans > Social conditions.
Disaster relief > Louisiana > New Orleans.
New Orleans (La.) > Social conditions.
New Orleans (La.) > Economic conditions.
Physical Description:xiii, 244 pages ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Foreword: Ten years later / James R. Elliott
  • Rethinking disaster recovery: Editor's introduction / Jeannie Haubert
  • I: Gender and sexuality in the recovery process
  • Trauma, recovery, and sexuality in post-Katrina New Orleans / Mim Schippers
  • It's raining men: Gender and street harassment in post-Katrina New Orleans / Andrea Wilbon Hartman, Erica Dudas, and Jennifer Day-Sully
  • Rebuilding for safety: Domestic violence and Hurricane Katrina / Pamela Jenkins and Bethany Van Brown
  • Missing in the Storm: The gender gap in Hurrican Katrina research and disaster management efforts / Kristen Barber and Shiloh Deitz
  • II: Race and class in the recovery process
  • On the kindness of strangers: Am I more worthy of your sympathy than Lakisha and Jamal? / Jeannie Haubert
  • Disaster, reconstruction, and racialization: Latinos in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina / Elizabeth Fussell and Amy Bellone-Hite
  • Flourishing or floundering?: Examining the carer paths of African American emerging adults in post-Katrina New Orleans / Farrah Grafford Cambrice
  • New Orleans's Katrina recovery for whom and what?: A race, gender , and class approach / Jean Ait Belkhir
  • III: Doing academia through disaster recovery
  • Trauma survivor as author; Method as recovery / Jessica W. Pardee
  • Housing market mayhem: Studying discrimination post-disaster / Jeannie Haubert
  • "We're stil in the trenches, baby...": Navigating academia in an uncertain, post-Katrina world / Danielle Antoinette Hidalgo and Dana M. Greene
  • Learning from disaster: Post-Katrina New Orleans as a sociological classroom / Timothy J. Haney
  • PostScript: Notes on the buildup to Katrina and the future of the Gulf Coast / Dana M. Greene.