The continuing storm : learning from Katrina / / Kai Erikson and Lori Peek

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910838320903321
• Autore: Erikson Kai <1931->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Austin : , : University of Texas Press, , 2022; ©2022
• ISBN: 1-4773-2435-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (159 pages)
• Collana: The Katrina Bookshelf
• Disciplina: 363.349220976090511
• Soggetti: Hurricane Katrina, 2005 - Social aspects; Natural disasters - Social aspects - United States; Disasters - Social aspects - United States; Disaster victims - United States; United States Social conditions 21st century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.