Recovering inequality
Subtitle: Hurricane Katrina, the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906, and the aftermath of disaster
By: Steve Kroll-Smith
Edition: First edition.
Series: Katrina bookshelf; Katrina bookshelf
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9781477316108; 9781477316115
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Emergency management; San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Calif., 1906; Equality; Social aspects; Race relations; Hurricane Katrina, 2005; Social conditions; Disaster relief
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1. An introduction; title: "The earth dragon" and "miss Katrina"; title: Geographies of inequality : a sketch of two cities spanning a century; title: pt. 2. Deranging and rekindling; title: The great derangements; title: Fashioning "the looter" : rekindling racial and class kinds; title: pt. 3. Rebooting inequality, the road to recovery; title: Disaster relief : parsing the vernaculars of worthiness; title: Spatial accumulation by dispossession : two attempts to rob the marginal; title: One city necessary, one city expendable.