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Emmanuel David - Women of the Storm, E-bok

E-bok, Engelska, 2017

Women of the Storm

Civic Activism After Hurricane Katrina

Av Emmanuel David

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Hurricanes Katrina and Rita made landfall less than four weeks apart in 2005. Months later, much of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast remained in tatters. As the region faded from national headlines, its residents faced a dire future. Emmanuel David chronicles how one activist group confronted the crisis. Founded by a few elite white women in New Orleans, Women of the Storm quickly formed a broad coalition that sought to represent Louisiana''s diverse population. From its early lobbying of Congress through its response to the 2010 BP oil spill, David shows how members'' actions were shaped by gender, race, class, and geography. Drawing on in-depth interviews, ethnographic observation, and archival research, David tells a compelling story of collective action and personal transformation that expands our understanding of the aftermath of an historic American catastrophe.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2017-10-16
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 272
  • Filformat: EPUB
  • Kopieringsskydd: LCP
  • ISBN: 9780252099861
  • Förlag: University of Illinois Press
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Emmanuel David is an assistant professor of women and gender studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. He is coeditor of The Women of Katrina: How Gender, Race, and Class Matter in an American Disaster.

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"Women of the Storm pulls back the analytical curtain on one of the most unusual post-Katrina political movements. Drawing on firsthand observations and in-depth interviews, David reveals how privileged white New Orleans women used their philanthropic and volunteer skills to create a genuinely interracial alliance that could effectively pressure members of Congress to invest in the city's and the whole coastal region's revival. Here is a book for anyone doing intersectional digging into gendered social movements, congressional lobbying, or postdisaster politics."—Cynthia Enloe, author of Seriously! Investigating Crashes and Crises as if Women Mattered"It is a book about storm recovery but, more important, about the personalities that helped move that effort forward. David offers the reader sound sociological explanations about the collective actions of WOS, but in the end, he gives readers a tale of perseverance and love of community." --The Journal of Southern History"Useful for anyone interested in studying gender, groups, disasters, politics, or social movements." --The Southern Register

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