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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789706703321

Titolo

The neoliberal deluge [[electronic resource] ] : Hurricane Katrina, late capitalism, and the remaking of New Orleans / / Cedric Johnson, editor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2011

ISBN

1-4529-4696-5

0-8166-7852-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (457 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

JohnsonCedric <1971->

Disciplina

976.3/35064

Soggetti

Emergency management - Louisiana - New Orleans

Hurricane Katrina, 2005

Disasters - Louisiana - New Orleans

Race discrimination - Louisiana - New Orleans

Neoliberalism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : the neoliberal deluge / Cedric Johnson -- From tipping point to metacrises: management, media, and Hurricane Katrina / Chris Russill and Chad Lavin -- "We are seeing people we didn't know exist" : Katrina and the neoliberal erasure of race / Eric Ishiwata -- Making citizens in magnaville : Katrina refugees and neoliberal self-governance / Geoffrey Whitehall and Cedric Johnson -- Mega-events, the superdome, and the return of the repressed in New Orleans / Paul Passavant -- Whose choice? a critical race perspective on charter schools / Adrienne Dixson -- Black and white, unite and fight? identity politics and New Orleans's post-Katrina public housing movement / John Arena -- Charming accommodations: progressive urbanism meets privatization in Brad Pitt's Make It Right Foundation / Cedric Johnson -- Laboratorization and the "green" rebuilding of New Orleans's lower ninth ward / Barbara L. Allen -- Squandered resources? grounded realities of recovery in post-tsunami Sri Lanka / Kanchana Ruwanpura -- How shall we remember New Orleans? comparing news coverage of post- Katrina New Orleans and the 2008 midwest floods / Linda Robertson -- The forgotten ones: Black women in the wake of Katrina /



Avis Jones-Deweever -- Hazardous constructions: mexican immigrant masculinity and the rebuilding of New Orleans / Nicole Trujillo-Pagon.

Sommario/riassunto

Katrina was not just a hurricane. The death, destruction, and misery wreaked on New Orleans cannot be blamed on nature's fury alone. This volume of essays locates the root causes of the 2005 disaster squarely in neoliberal restructuring and examines how pro-market reforms are reshaping life, politics, economy, and the built environment in New Orleans.The authors-a diverse group writing from the disciplines of sociology, political science, education, public policy, and media theory-argue that human agency and public policy choices were more at fault for the devastation and mass suffering experi