Making Sense of Disaster Through Rhetorical Homologies: Extending Walter Benjamin’s Unique/Copy Binary to Post-Katrina Tours
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DOI: 10.1080/01463373.2017.1374295
Abstract: Over a decade after Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, publics continue to come to terms with the tragedy. Isabelle Cossart, owner of “Tours by Isabelle” and survivor of the hurricane, began offering disaster tours of… read more here.
Keywords: post katrina; walter benjamin; sense disaster; disaster ... See more keywords
Review of Development Drowned and Reborn: The Blues and Bourbon Restorations in Post-Katrina New Orleans, by Clyde Woods
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DOI: 10.1080/10999949.2019.1565279
Abstract: Development Drowned and Reborn (henceforth DD) is the product of several years’ work by the late political geographer and Black Studies scholar Clyde Woods. Completed and released posthumously by Jordan T. Camp and Laura Pulido,… read more here.
Keywords: drowned reborn; post katrina; clyde woods; development drowned ... See more keywords
Disaster Resilience into Which Direction(s)? Competing Discursive and Material Practices in Post-Katrina New Orleans
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DOI: 10.1080/14036096.2017.1308434
Abstract: ABSTRACT Making use of theories of discourse and social innovation, this paper analyses the resilience of post-Katrina housing reconstruction trajectories in New Orleans. It defines and connects the concepts of hegemonic and counter-hegemonic social resilience… read more here.
Keywords: discursive material; post katrina; resilience; housing ... See more keywords