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Rethinking Disaster Recovery : A Hurricane Katrina Retrospective.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Blue Ridge Summit : Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (260 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781498501217
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Rethinking Disaster RecoveryDDC classification:
  • 363.349220976335
LOC classification:
  • HV636 2005 .N4 -- .R47 2015eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Foreword: Ten Years Later -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Rethinking Disaster Recovery -- I: Gender and Sexuality in the Recovery Process -- 2 Trauma, Recovery, and Sexuality in Post-Katrina New Orleans -- 3 It's Raining Men -- 4 Rebuilding for Safety -- 5 Missing in the Storm -- II: Race and Class in the Recovery Process -- 6 On the Kindness of Strangers -- 7 Disaster, Reconstruction, and Racialization -- 8 Flourishing or Floundering? -- 9 New Orleans's Katrina Recovery for Whom and What? -- III: Doing Academia through Disaster Recovery -- 10 Trauma Survivor as Author -- Method as Recovery -- 11 Housing Market Mayhem -- 12 "We're Still in the Trenches, Baby . . ." -- 13 Learning from Disaster -- PostScript -- References -- Index -- About the Authors.
Summary: Written by scholars who experienced Hurricane Katrina first-hand, this book analyzes issues that are still impacting residents a decade later such as discrimination, gentrification, mass privatization of public institutions, street harassment, and domestic violence.
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Intro -- Contents -- Foreword: Ten Years Later -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Rethinking Disaster Recovery -- I: Gender and Sexuality in the Recovery Process -- 2 Trauma, Recovery, and Sexuality in Post-Katrina New Orleans -- 3 It's Raining Men -- 4 Rebuilding for Safety -- 5 Missing in the Storm -- II: Race and Class in the Recovery Process -- 6 On the Kindness of Strangers -- 7 Disaster, Reconstruction, and Racialization -- 8 Flourishing or Floundering? -- 9 New Orleans's Katrina Recovery for Whom and What? -- III: Doing Academia through Disaster Recovery -- 10 Trauma Survivor as Author -- Method as Recovery -- 11 Housing Market Mayhem -- 12 "We're Still in the Trenches, Baby . . ." -- 13 Learning from Disaster -- PostScript -- References -- Index -- About the Authors.

Written by scholars who experienced Hurricane Katrina first-hand, this book analyzes issues that are still impacting residents a decade later such as discrimination, gentrification, mass privatization of public institutions, street harassment, and domestic violence.

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