Katrina Bookshelf – serie
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Displaced
Life in the Katrina Diaspora
Av Lynn Weber, Lori Peek
Häftad, 2012
329 kr
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Hurricane Katrina forced the largest and most abrupt displacement in U.S. history. About 1.5 million people evacuated from the Gulf Coast preceding Katrina’s landfall. New Orleans, a city of 500,000, was nearly emptied of life after the hurricane and flooding. Katrina survivors eventually scattered …
Left to Chance
Hurricane Katrina and the Story of Two New Orleans Neighborhoods
Av Steve Kroll-Smith, Vern Baxter m. fl.
Häftad, 2015
274 kr
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How do survivors recover from the worst urban flood in American history, a disaster that destroyed nearly the entire physical landscape of a city, as well as the mental and emotional maps that people use to navigate their everyday lives? This question has haunted the survivors of Hurricane Katrina …
Children of Katrina
Av Alice Fothergill, Lori Peek
Häftad, 2015
330 kr
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Winner, Betty and Alfred McClung Lee Book Award, Association for Humanist Sociology, 2016Outstanding Scholarly Contribution Award of the Section on Children and Youth, American Sociological Association, 2016Honorable Mention, Leo Goodman Award, Methodology Section, American Sociological …
Is This America?
Katrina As Cultural Trauma
Av Ron Eyerman
Häftad, 2015
274 kr
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From police on the street, to the mayor of New Orleans and FEMA administrators, government officials monumentally failed to protect the most vulnerable residents of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast during the Katrina disaster. This violation of the social contract undermined the foundational …
Standing in the Need
Culture, Comfort, and Coming Home After Katrina
Häftad, 2015
330 kr
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Standing in the Need presents an intimate account of an African American family’s ordeal after Hurricane Katrina. Before the storm struck, this family of one hundred fifty members lived in the bayou communities of St. Bernard Parish just outside New Orleans. Rooted there like the wild red iris of …
Recovering Inequality
Hurricane Katrina, the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906, and the Aftermath of Disaster
Inbunden, 2018
996 kr
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A lethal mix of natural disaster, dangerously flawed construction, and reckless human actions devastated San Francisco in 1906 and New Orleans in 2005. Eighty percent of the built environments of both cities were destroyed in the catastrophes, and the poor, the elderly, and the medically infirm …
Recovering Inequality
Hurricane Katrina, the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906, and the Aftermath of Disaster
Häftad, 2018
311 kr
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A lethal mix of natural disaster, dangerously flawed construction, and reckless human actions devastated San Francisco in 1906 and New Orleans in 2005. Eighty percent of the built environments of both cities were destroyed in the catastrophes, and the poor, the elderly, and the medically infirm …
Caught in the Path of Katrina
A Survey of the Hurricane's Human Effects
Av J. Steven Picou, Keith Nicholls
Inbunden, 2019
854 kr
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In 2008, three years after Hurricane Katrina cut a deadly path along the northern coast of the Gulf of Mexico, researchers J. Steven Picou and Keith Nicholls conducted a survey of the survivors in Louisiana and Mississippi, receiving more than twenty-five hundred responses, and followed up two …
Caught in the Path of Katrina
A Survey of the Hurricane's Human Effects
Av J. Steven Picou, Keith Nicholls
Häftad, 2019
274 kr
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In 2008, three years after Hurricane Katrina cut a deadly path along the northern coast of the Gulf of Mexico, researchers J. Steven Picou and Keith Nicholls conducted a survey of the survivors in Louisiana and Mississippi, receiving more than twenty-five hundred responses, and followed up two …
