| Description |
1 online resource (313 pages) |
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Cover; THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A NATURAL DISASTER; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; 1 Pre-Katrina, Post-Katrina; 2 A Matter of Choice: Historical Lessons for Disaster Recovery; 3 Oral History, Folklore, and Katrina; 4 Towards a Transformative View of Race: The Crisis and Opportunity of Katrina; 5 Abandoned Before the Storms: The Glaring Disaster of Gender, Race, and Class Disparities in the Gulf; 6 Katrina and the Politics of Later Life; 7 Where Is Home? Housing for Low-Income People After the 2005 Hurricanes |
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8 Reclaiming New Orleans' Working-Class Communities9 A New Kind of Medical Disaster in the United States; 10 Double Jeopardy: Public Education in New Orleans Before and After the Storm; 11 An Old Economy for the ""New"" New Orleans? Post-Hurricane Katrina Economic Development Efforts; 12 From Poverty to Prosperity: The Critical Role of Financial Institutions; 13 The Role of Local Organizing: House-to-House with Boots on the Ground; 14 Rebuilding A Tortured Past or Creating A Model Future: The Limits and Potentials of Plannng; Contributors; Index |
| Summary |
There is No Such Thing as a Natural Disaster is the first comprehensive critical book on the catastrophic impact of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans. The disaster will go down on record as one of the worst in American history, not least because of the government's inept and cavalier response. But it is also a huge story for other reasons; the impact of the hurricane was uneven, and race and class were deeply implicated in the unevenness. Hartman and. Squires assemble two dozen critical scholars and activists who present a multifaceted portrait of the social implications of th |
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Print version record |
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Hurricane Katrina, 2005 -- Social aspects -- Louisiana -- New Orleans
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Human services.
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Hurricane Rita, 2005 -- Social aspects -- Gulf States
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Disaster relief -- Social aspects -- Louisiana -- New Orleans
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Disaster relief -- Social aspects -- Gulf States
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Marginality, Social -- Government policy -- Louisiana -- New Orleans
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Marginality, Social -- Government policy -- Gulf States
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People with social disabilities -- Louisiana -- New Orleans
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People with social disabilities -- Gulf States
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Social service -- Societies, etc.
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social services.
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Social service -- Societies, etc.
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Social aspects
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People with social disabilities
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Marginality, Social -- Government policy
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Human services
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Disaster relief -- Social aspects
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Social Welfare & Social Work - General.
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Social Welfare & Social Work.
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Social Sciences.
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United States -- Gulf States
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Louisiana -- New Orleans
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Hartman, Chester W
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| ISBN |
9781136084744 |
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1136084746 |
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