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The Neoliberal Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, Late Capitalism, and the Remaking of New Orleans
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Overview
The authorsa diverse group writing from the disciplines of sociology, political science, education, public policy, and media theoryargue that human agency and public policy choices were more at fault for the devastation and mass suffering experienced along the Gulf Coast than were sheer forces of nature. The harrowing images of flattened homes, citizens stranded on rooftops, patients dying in makeshift hospitals, and dead bodies floating in floodwaters exposed the moral and political contradictions of neoliberalismthe ideological rejection of the planner state and the active promotion of a new order of market rule.
Many of these essays offer critical insights on the saga of postdisaster reconstruction. Challenging triumphal narratives of civic resiliency and universal recovery, the authors bring to the fore pitched battles over labor rights, gender and racial justice, gentrification, the development of city master plans, the demolition of public housing, policing, the privatization of public schools, and roiling tensions between tourism-based economic growth and neighborhood interests. The contributors also expand and deepen more conventional critiques of “disaster capitalism” to consider how the corporate mobilization of philanthropy and public good will are remaking New Orleans in profound and pernicious ways.
Contributors: Barbara L. Allen, Virginia Polytechnic U; John Arena, CUNY College of Staten Island; Adrienne Dixson, Ohio State U; Eric Ishiwata, Colorado State U; Avis Jones-Deweever, National Council of Negro Women; Chad Lavin, Virginia Polytechnic U; Paul Passavant, Hobart and William Smith Colleges; Linda Robertson, Hobart and William Smith Colleges; Chris Russill, Carleton U; Kanchana Ruwanpura, U of Southampton; Nicole Trujillo-Pagán, Wayne State U; Geoffrey Whitehall, Acadia U.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780816673254 |
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Publisher: | University of Minnesota Press |
Publication date: | 10/06/2011 |
Pages: | 416 |
Product dimensions: | 5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 1.10(d) |
About the Author
Table of Contents
ContentsPreface: “Obama’s Katrina”
Cedric Johnson
Introduction: The Neoliberal Deluge
Cedric Johnson
Part I. Governance
1. From Tipping Point to Metacrises: Management, Media, and Hurricane Katrina Chris Russill and Chad Lavin
2. “We Are Seeing People We Didn’t Know Exist”: Katrina and the Neoliberal Erasure of Race
Eric Ishiwata
3. Making Citizens in Magnaville: Katrina Refugees and Neoliberal Self-Governance
Geoffrey Whitehall and Cedric Johnson
Part II. Urbanity
4. Mega-events, the Superdome, and the Return of the Repressed in New Orleans
Paul Passavant
5. Whose Choice? A Critical Race Perspective on Charter Schools
Adrienne Dixson
6. Black and White, Unite and Fight? Identity Politics and New Orleans’s Post-Katrina Public Housing Movement
John Arena
Part III. Planning
7. Charming Accommodations: Progressive Urbanism Meets Privatization in Brad Pitt’s Make It Right Foundation
Cedric Johnson
8. Laboratorization and the “Green” Rebuilding of New Orleans’s Lower Ninth Ward
Barbara L. Allen
9. Squandered Resources? Grounded Realities of Recovery in Post-Tsunami Sri Lanka
Kanchana Ruwanpura
Part IV. Inequality
10. How Shall We Remember New Orleans? Comparing News Coverage of Post- Katrina New Orleans and the 2008 Midwest Floods
Linda Robertson
11. The Forgotten Ones: Black Women in the Wake of Katrina
Avis Jones-Deweever
12. Hazardous Constructions: Mexican Immigrant Masculinity and the Rebuilding of New Orleans
Nicole Trujillo-Pagán
Contributors
Index