The "Katrina effect" : on the nature of catastrophe

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The "Katrina effect" : on the nature of catastrophe

edited by William M. Taylor ... [et al.]

Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

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On August 29th 2005, the headwaters of Hurricane Katrina's storm-surge arrived at New Orleans, the levees broke and the city was inundated. Perhaps no other disaster of the 21st century has so captured the global media's attention and featured in the 'imagination of disaster' like Katrina. The Katrina Effect charts the important ethical territory that underscores thinking about disaster and the built environment globally. Given the unfolding of recent events, disasters are acquiring original and complex meanings. This is partly because of the global expansion and technological interaction of urban societies in which the multiple and varied impacts of disasters are recognized. These meanings pose significant new problems for civil society: what becomes of public accountability, egalitarianism and other democratic ideals in the face of catastrophe? This collection of critical essays assesses the storm's global impact on overlapping urban, social and political imaginaries. Given the coincidence and 'perfect storm' of environmental, geo-political and economic challenges facing liberal democratic societies, communities will come under increasing strain to preserve and restore social fabric while affording all citizens equal opportunity in determining the forms that future cities and communities will take. Today, 21st century economic neo-liberalism, global warming or recent theories of 'urban vulnerability' and resilience provide key new contexts for understanding the meaning and legacy of Katrina.

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List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Foreword William M. Taylor and Michael P. Levine--Catastrophe and the "Katrina Effect" Reckoning: Disaster and Justice Naomi Zack--The Effect of Katrina on Ideas About Justice Anna Hartnell--New Orleans, 2005 and Port-au-Prince, 2010: Some Reflections on Trans-American Disaster in the Twenty-first Century Recomposing Katrina John Hannigan--"It's the end of the city (as we know it)": Katrina as Metaphor and Template for the "Urban Apocalypse" Richard Campanella--A Katrina Lexicon James O'Byrne--Bearing Witness: Journalists in the Eye of the Storm Dissembling: Sociology, Philosophy and Ecology James Rhodes--Extending the "Urban Disaster" Paradigm: From New Orleans to Detroit (and Beyond?) Michael Levine--Witnessing Katrina: Morbid Curiosity and the Aesthetics of Disaster Accounting for Disaster Grahame Thompson--Post-Katrina and Post-Financial Crises: Competing Logics of Risk, Uncertainty, and Security Michael Faure--Shifts in Compensating Victims of Disasters after Katrina Tabula rasa: Urbanism and Architecture Christine Boyer--Katrina Effect: The Ruination of New Orleans and the Planners of Injustice William M. Taylor--Architecture after Katrina: Lessons from the Past or Designs for Someone Else's Future? Jeffry Diefendorf--Historic Urban Catastrophes: Learning for the Future from Wartime Destruction Memory: forgetfulness and commemoration Craig Colten--Historic City with a Poor Memory David Simpson--Natural and Man-Made: Memorializing Complex Causes Bibliography Index

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