Adams Markets of Sorrow, Labors of Faith

New Orleans in the Wake of Katrina
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7919-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 240 Seiten

This ethnographic account of long-term recovery in post-Katrina New Orleans provides a sobering look at the fallout from the privatization of vital social services under neoliberal, or market-driven, governance.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Adams, Vincanne

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. It's Not about Katrina 1

2. The Making of a Disaster 22

3. "If This Could Happen to Us, It Could Happen to Anyone" 55

4. Navigating the Road Home 74

5. Getting to the Breaking Point 99

6. Faith in a Volunteer Recovery 126

7. Charity, Philanthrocapitalism, and the Affect Economy 153

8. Katrina as the Future 176

Acknowledgments 191

Notes 193

Bibliography 213

Index 225

Über Autor(innen)

Vincanne Adams is Professor of Medical Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. She has written and edited numerous books in medical anthropology, including Sex and Development: Science, Sexuality and Morality in Global Perspective (coedited with Stacy Leigh Pigg) also published by Duke University Press.