Narrating the Storm
Sociological Stories of Hurricane Katrina
1st Edition
Published on 26. March 2009
259 pages
978-1-4438-0620-6 (ISBN)
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For those interested in learning more about the personal impact of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, Narrating the Storm serves as an essential read. This important and timeless volume is a compilation of sixteen narratives that address the experiences of Gulf Coast residents, faculty, and graduate students who were caught up in the largest (not so) natural disaster in United States history. Each contributor deploys storytelling sociology as a methodological approach in order to illustrate how ",personal", experiences with disaster are not so personal, but rather reflect and are informed by larger social phenomena related to issues including race, class, gender, age, bureaucracy, risk, collective memory, the blase, and more. The narratives in this volume exemplify how inequality and injustice are unveiled, exacerbated, and created by the occurrence of disaster, and reveal the sociological in everyday and not-so-everyday experiences.
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Kristen Barber | Kristen Barber | Danielle A. Hidalgo
Narrating the Storm
Sociological Stories of Hurricane Katrina
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01/2008
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
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Content
- Intro
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- LIST OF IMAGES
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- PART I
- FILLER UP PLEASE
- HOW I SPENT MY HURRICANE VACATION
- CATACLYSM IN NEW ORLEANS
- VOLUNTEERING ON GALVESTON ISLAND
- SUBVERTING SOCIAL VULNERABILITIES AND INEQUALITY IN DISASTER SURVIVAL
- PART II
- THE EMOTIONAL MANAGEMENT OF A STRANGER
- ON MANAGING SPOILED IDENTITY
- VOLUNTEER VOICES
- PART III
- DISASTER AND THE IRRATIONALITY OF "RATIONAL" BUREAUCRACY
- MY AUNT PO
- USING SIMMEL TO SURVIVE
- THE FIRST MAJOR U.S. URBAN EVACUATION
- PART IV
- TRAUMA WRITTEN IN FLESH
- A BRICOLAGE OF LOSS
- HURRICANE KATRINA
- ISN'T NEW ORLEANS BACK TO NORMAL? A DRAMATURGICAL ANALYSIS OF POST-KATRINA NEW ORLEANS
- CONTRIBUTORS
- INDEX
