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Book SynopsisA critical collection on the politics of disaster and reconstruction in New Orleans
Trade Review"This is a very important volume that all people interested in the Katrina disaster, governance, and American politics should read. In this book, Cedric Johnson and the other contributors reframe our understanding of the disaster by highlighting the role of neoliberalism in shaping both the preconditions for and response to this crisis. Those who read this book will come away with deeper knowledge of the meaning and work of neoliberalism over the last quarter century." —Cathy Cohen, University of Chicago
Table of ContentsContents
Preface: “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
