Sociology of Katrina

David L. Brunsma is associate professor of sociology at the University of Missouri at Columbia.David Overfelt is a graduate of sociology at the University of Missouri at Columbia and a member of Sociologists Without Borders. J. Steven Picou is professor of sociology and chair of the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work at the University of South Alabama in Mobile.

This second edition constitutes further in depth learning from the most destructive collision in American history between nature's hazard and socially constructed vulnerability, knowledge that is essential as societies head toward more confrontations.

• List of FiguresList of TablesForeword by Kai EriksonPreface to the First Edition by David L. BrunsmaPreface to the Second Edition by David L. BrunsmaIntroduction: Katrina as Paradigm Shift: Reflections on Disaster Research in the Twenty-First CenturyPart I: Framing Katrina: Context and ConstructionChapter 1: Finding and Framing Katrina: The Social Construction of DisasterChapter 2: Disaster as War: Militarism and the Social Construction of Disaster in New OrleansChapter 3: Crime and Hurricanes in New OrleansPart II: Experiencing EvacuationChapter 4: Families and Hurricane Response: Risk, Roles, Resources, Race, and Religion: A Framework for Understanding Family Evacuation Strategies, Stress, and Return MigrationChapter 5: Race, Class, and Capital amidst the Hurricane Katrina DiasporaChapter 6: Understanding Community-Based Disaster Response: Houston's Religious Congregations and Hurricane Katrina Relief EffortsPart III: Ongoing Disaster: Reaction and RecoveryChapter 7: Community Recovery from Hurricane Katrina: Storm Experiences, Property Damage, and the Human ConditionChapter 8: After the Levees Broke: Reactions of College Students to the Aftermath of Hurricane KatrinaChapter 9: Landscapes of Disaster and Place Orientation in the Aftermath of Hurricane KatrinaChapter 10: Using Research to Inform and Build Capacity Among Community-Based Organizations: Four Years of Gulf Coast Recovery Following Hurricane KatrinaChapter 11:Rebuilding New Orleans Neighborhoods after Hurricane Katrina: Toward a Theory of Social Structure and Cultural CreativityPart IV: Postdisaster Institutional ChangeChapter 12: Disaster Impacts on Education: Hurricane Katrina and the Adaptation and Recovery of New Orleans-Area Colleges and UniversitiesChapter 13: Heath Needs, Health Care, and KatrinaChapter 14: Immigration, Reconstruction and Settlement: Hurricane Katrina and the Emergence Immigrant CommunitiesPostscript: Considering KatrinaAppendix TablesReferencesIndexAbout the Editors and Contributors