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.
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.
Vincanne Adams is Professor of Medical Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. She has written and edited numerous books in medical anthropology, including Sex and Development: Science, Sexuality and Morality in Global Perspective (coedited with Stacy Leigh Pigg) also published by Duke University Press.
Inhaltsangabe
1. It's Not about Katrina 1 2. The Making of a Disaster 22 3. "If This Could Happen to Us, It Could Happen to Anyone" 55 4. Navigating the Road Home 74 5. Getting to the Breaking Point 99 6. Faith in a Volunteer Recovery 126 7. Charity, Philanthrocapitalism, and the Affect Economy 153 8. Katrina as the Future 176 Acknowledgments 191 Notes 193 Bibliography 213 Index 225
1. It's Not about Katrina 1 2. The Making of a Disaster 22 3. "If This Could Happen to Us, It Could Happen to Anyone" 55 4. Navigating the Road Home 74 5. Getting to the Breaking Point 99 6. Faith in a Volunteer Recovery 126 7. Charity, Philanthrocapitalism, and the Affect Economy 153 8. Katrina as the Future 176 Acknowledgments 191 Notes 193 Bibliography 213 Index 225
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