Steve Kroll-Smith

Recovering Inequality: Hurricane Katrina, the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906, and the Aftermath of Disaster

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Produktbeschreibung

This comparative case study of the recovery outcomes from two of the most devastating urban catastrophes in American history lays bare the social inequality inherent in racially arranged, capital-based economies.

Produktdetails

• Katrina Bookshelf
• Verlag: University of Texas Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9781477316115
• ISBN-10: 1477316116
• Artikelnr.: 49679709

Autorenporträt

Steve Kroll-Smith is a professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and was formerly a research professor of sociology at the University of New Orleans. He is the coauthor of Left to Chance: Hurricane Katrina and the Story of Two New Orleans Neighborhoods.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Acknowledgments
2. Foreword by Anthony Oliver-Smith
3. From Whence Recovery? A Prelude
4. I. An Introduction
* 1. “The Earth Dragon” and “Miss Katrina”
* 2. Geographies of Inequality: A Sketch of Two Cities Spanning a
Century
5. II. Deranging and Rekindling
* 3. The Great Derangements
* 4. Fashioning “the Looter”: Rekindling Racial and Class Kinds
6. III. Rebooting Inequality, the Road to Recovery
* 5. Disaster Relief: Parsing the Vernaculars of Worthiness
* 6. Spatial Accumulation by Dispossession: Two Attempts to Rob the
Marginal
* 7. One City Necessary, One City Expendable
7. By Way of Closing
8. Notes
9. Index