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The Katrina Effect on the Nature of Catastrophe

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: London Bloomsbury Publishing 2015Description: 356pISBN:
  • 9781472595171
DDC classification:
  • N53 T212
Partial contents:
1 Catastrophe and the Katrina effect Part one Reckoning: Disaster and justice ...25 2 The effect of Katrina on ideas of justice ...27 3 New Orleans, 2005 and port-au-prince, 2010: Some reflections on trans-American disaster in the twenty- first century ...49 Part two Recomposing katrina ...71 4 It`s the end of the city (as we Know it) Kartrina as metaphor and template for the Urban apocalypse ...73 5 A katrina lexicon ...91 Photographic essay (Plate section) : Bearing witness: Journalists in th eye of the storm, Part three Dissembling: Sociology, philosophy, and ecology ...115 6 Extending the Urban disaster paradigm: From new orleans to detroit ...117 7 Witnessing Katrina: Morbid curiosity and the aesthetics of disaster ...145 Part four Accounting for disaster ...175 8 Post- Katrina and post-financial crises: Competing logics of risk, uncertainty, and security ...177 9 Shifts in compensating victims of disasters after katrina ...195 Part five Tabula rasa: Urbanism and architecture ...221 10 Katrina effect: The ruination of new orleans and the planners of injustice ...223 11 Architecture after Katrina: Lessons from the past or designs for someone else`s future ...255 12 Historic urban catastrophes: Learning for the future from wartime destruction ...287 Part six Memory: Forgetfulness and commemoration ...303 13 Historic city with a poor memory ...305 14 Natural and man-made: Memorializing complex causes ...331
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includes index and biblioraphy

1 Catastrophe and the Katrina effect Part one Reckoning: Disaster and justice ...25 2 The effect of Katrina on ideas of justice ...27 3 New Orleans, 2005 and port-au-prince, 2010: Some reflections on trans-American disaster in the twenty- first century ...49 Part two Recomposing katrina ...71 4 It`s the end of the city (as we Know it) Kartrina as metaphor and template for the Urban apocalypse ...73 5 A katrina lexicon ...91 Photographic essay (Plate section) : Bearing witness: Journalists in th eye of the storm, Part three Dissembling: Sociology, philosophy, and ecology ...115 6 Extending the Urban disaster paradigm: From new orleans to detroit ...117 7 Witnessing Katrina: Morbid curiosity and the aesthetics of disaster ...145 Part four Accounting for disaster ...175 8 Post- Katrina and post-financial crises: Competing logics of risk, uncertainty, and security ...177 9 Shifts in compensating victims of disasters after katrina ...195 Part five Tabula rasa: Urbanism and architecture ...221 10 Katrina effect: The ruination of new orleans and the planners of injustice ...223 11 Architecture after Katrina: Lessons from the past or designs for someone else`s future ...255 12 Historic urban catastrophes: Learning for the future from wartime destruction ...287 Part six Memory: Forgetfulness and commemoration ...303 13 Historic city with a poor memory ...305 14 Natural and man-made: Memorializing complex causes ...331

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