Narrating the storm [electronic resource] : sociological stories of Hurricane Katrina / edited by Danielle A. Hidalgo and Kristen Barber.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Hidalgo, Danielle Antoinette
Barber, Kristen
Language:English
Published: Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007.
Subjects:
Hurricane Katrina, 2005 > Social aspects.
Hurricanes > Social aspects > Louisiana > New Orleans.
Disaster victims > Louisiana > New Orleans.
Online Access:
EBSCO eBooks: 2007 (EBSCO)
eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2007 (EBSCO)
Variant Title:
Narrating the Storm: Sociological Stories of Hurricane Katrina
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • Pt. 1. Experiencing race and class in and through disaster. Filler up please : coping with racial stigmas after Hurricane Katrina / Andrea M. Wibon
  • How I spent my hurricane vacation / Carl L. Bankston III
  • Cataclysm in New Orleans : story of a black single mother / Ruth S. Idakula
  • Volunteering on Galveston Island : how poverty shaped my response to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita / Deanna Meyler
  • Subverting social vulnerabilities and inequality in disaster survival / R. L. Stockard, Russell L. Stockard, Jr., and M. Belinda Tucker
  • Pt. 2. The managed self : identities, emotions, and the treatment of the hurricane "other". The emotional management of a stranger : negotiating class privilege and masculine academics as a Hurricane Katrina evacuee / Kristen Barber
  • On managing spoiled identity : the escape from Hurricane Katrina and Rita / Stan C. Weeber
  • Volunteer voices : making sense of our trip to the Mississippi Gulf Coast after Katrina / Jeffrey T. Jackson and Kirsten A. Dellinger
  • Pt. 3. (Ir)Rationality as a tool for making disaster-related decisions. Disaster and the irrationality of "rational" bureaucracy : daily life and the continuing struggles in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina / Timothy J. Haney
  • My Aunt Po : collective memories shaping collective responses / Sarah Stohlman
  • Using Simmel to survive : the blase attitude as a disaster reaction and response / Jessica W. Pardee
  • The first major U.S. urban evacuation : Houston and the social construction of risk / Pamela Behan
  • Pt. 4. After the storm : navigating new meanings of self and city. Trauma written in flesh : tattoos as memorials and stories / Glenn W. Gentry and Derek H. Alderman
  • A Bricolage of loss / Donna Maria Bonner
  • Hurricane Katrina : a turning point for families / Nicole Buras
  • Isn't New Orleans back to normal? a dramaturgical analysis of post-Katrina New Orleans / Carolyn Corrado and Tamara L. Smith.