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Author Adams, Vincanne, 1959- author.

Title Markets of sorrow, labors of faith : New Orleans in the wake of Katrina / Vincanne Adams
Published Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (227 pages) : illustrations
Contents It's not about Katrina -- The making of a disaster -- If this could happen to us, it could happen to anyone -- Navigating the road home -- Getting to the breaking points -- Faith in a volunteer recovery -- Charity, philanthrocapitalism and the affect economy -- Katrina as the future
Summary This ethnographic account of long-term recovery in post-Katrina New Orleans provides a sobering look at the fallout from the privatization of vital social services under neoliberal, or market-driven, governance
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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SUBJECT Universidad Sergio Arboleda gnd
Subject Hurricane Katrina, 2005.
Disaster relief -- Government policy -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 21st century
Social justice -- Louisiana -- New Orleans
Emergency management -- Government policy -- United States
Privatization -- Government policy -- United States
Disasters.
Victims.
Cyclonic Storms
Disasters
Relief Work
Survivors
Public Policy
disasters.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Victims
Disasters
Disaster relief -- Government policy
Emergency management -- Government policy
Social justice
Privatization -- Government policy
Katrina Hurrikan
Naturkatastrophe
Regierung
Privatisierung
Sozialer Konflikt
Konjunkturaufschwung
SUBJECT Louisiana
Subject Louisiana -- New Orleans
United States
Louisiana
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0822379198
9780822379195