Rethinking disaster recovery : a Hurricane Katrina retrospective
Rethinking Disaster Recovery focuses attention on the social inequalities that existed on the Gulf Coast before Hurricane Katrina and how they have been magnified or altered since the storm. With a focus on social axes of power such as gender, sexuality, race, and class, this book tells new and personalized stories of recovery that help to deepen our understanding of the disaster. Specifically, the volume examines ways in which gender and sexuality issues have been largely ignored in the emerging post-Katrina literature. The voices of young racial and ethnic minorities growing up in post-Katrina New Orleans also rise to the surface as they discuss their outlook on future employment. Environmental inequities and the slow pace of recovery for many parts of the city are revealed through narrative accounts from volunteers helping to rebuild. Scholars, who were themselves impacted, tell personal stories of trauma, displacement, and recovery as they connect their biographies to a larger social context. These insights into the day-to-day lives of survivors over the past ten years help illuminate the complex disaster recovery process and provide key lessons for all-too-likely future disasters. How do experiences of recovery vary along several axes of difference? Why are some able to recover quickly while others struggle? What is it like to live in a city recovering from catastrophe and what are the prospects for the future? Through on-the-ground observation and keen sociological analysis, Rethinking Disaster Recovery answers some of these questions and suggests interesting new avenues for research. -- Provided by publisher
1 online resource (xiii, 244 pages)
9781498501217, 1498501214
903118360
Print version:
Foreword: Ten years later / James R. Elliott
Rethinking disaster recovery: Editor's introduction / Jeannie Haubert
I: Gender and sexuality in the recovery process
Trauma, recovery, and sexuality in post-Katrina New Orleans / Mim Schippers
It's raining men: Gender and street harassment in post-Katrina New Orleans / Andrea Wilbon Hartman, Erica Dudas, and Jennifer Day-Sully
Rebuilding for safety: Domestic violence and Hurricane Katrina / Pamela Jenkins and Bethany Van Brown
Missing in the Storm: The gender gap in Hurrican Katrina research and disaster management efforts / Kristen Barber and Shiloh Deitz
II: Race and class in the recovery process
On the kindness of strangers: Am I more worthy of your sympathy than Lakisha and Jamal? / Jeannie Haubert
Disaster, reconstruction, and racialization: Latinos in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina / Elizabeth Fussell and Amy Bellone-Hite
Flourishing or floundering?: Examining the carer paths of African American emerging adults in post-Katrina New Orleans / Farrah Grafford Cambrice
New Orleans's Katrina recovery for whom and what?: A race, gender, and class approach / Jean Ait Belkhir
III: Doing academia through disaster recovery
Trauma survivor as author; Method as recovery / Jessica W. Pardee
Housing market mayhem: Studying discrimination post-disaster / Jeannie Haubert
"We're still in the trenches, baby ... ": Navigating academia in an uncertain, post-Katrina world / Danielle Antoinette Hidalgo and Dana M. Greene
Learning from disaster: Post-Katrina New Orleans as a sociological classroom / Timothy J. Haney
PostScript: Notes on the buildup to Katrina and the future of the Gulf Coast / Dana M. Greene
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