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Rethinking Disaster Recovery
A Hurricane Katrina Retrospective
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2015
Summary
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 personalized stories of recovery that help to deepen our understanding of the disaster. Specifically, the volume examines ways in which gender and sexuality issues have been largely ignored in the emerging post-Katrina literature. The voices of young racial and ethnic minorities growing up in post-Katrina New Orleans also rise to the surface as they discuss their outlook on future employment. Environmental inequities and the slow pace of recovery for many parts of the city are revealed through narrative accounts from volunteers helping to rebuild. Scholars, who were themselves impacted, tell personal stories of trauma, displacement, and recovery as they connect their biographies to a larger social context. These insights into the day-to-day lives of survivors over the past ten years help illuminate the complex disaster recovery process and provide key lessons for all-too-likely future disasters. How do experiences of recovery vary along several axes of difference? Why are some able to recover quickly while others struggle? What is it like to live in a city recovering from catastrophe and what are the prospects for the future? Through on-the-ground observation and keen sociological analysis, Rethinking Disaster Recovery answers some of these questions and suggests interesting new avenues for research.
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Copyright year
2015
ISBN-Print
978-1-4985-0120-0
ISBN-Online
978-1-4985-0121-7
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
244
Product type
Edited Book
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Foreword: Ten Years Later No access
Acknowledgments No access
1 Rethinking Disaster Recovery No access Pages 1 - 12
2 Trauma, Recovery, and Sexuality in Post-Katrina New Orleans No access
3 It’s Raining Men No access
4 Rebuilding for Safety No access
5 Missing in the Storm No access
6 On the Kindness of Strangers No access
7 Disaster, Reconstruction, and Racialization No access
8 Flourishing or Floundering? No access
9 New Orleans’s Katrina Recovery for Whom and What? No access
10 Trauma Survivor as Author; Method as Recovery No access
11 Housing Market Mayhem No access
12 “We’re Still in the Trenches, Baby . . .” No access
