Narrating the storm
Subtitle: sociological stories of Hurricane Katrina
By: edited by Danielle A. Hidalgo and Kristen Barber.
Contributors: Hidalgo, Danielle Antoinette.; Barber, Kristen.
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Newcastle
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
ISBN-13: 9781847183620
Subjects: Hurricane Katrina, 2005 -- Social aspects.; Hurricanes -- Social aspects -- Louisiana -- New Orleans.; Disaster victims -- Louisiana -- New Orleans.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1. Experiencing race and class in and through disaster. Filler up please : coping with racial stigmas after Hurricane Katrina / Andrea M. Wibon; title: How I spent my hurricane vacation / Carl L. Bankston III; title: Cataclysm in New Orleans : story of a black single mother / Ruth S. Idakula; title: Volunteering on Galveston Island : how poverty shaped my response to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita / Deanna Meyler; title: Subverting social vulnerabilities and inequality in disaster survival / R. L. Stockard, Russell L. Stockard, Jr., and M. Belinda Tucker; title: Pt. 2. The managed self : identities, emotions, and the treatment of the hurricane "other". The emotional management of a stranger : negotiating class privilege and masculine academics as a Hurricane Katrina evacuee / Kristen Barber; title: On managing spoiled identity : the escape from Hurricane Katrina and Rita / Stan C. Weeber; title: Volunteer voices : making sense of our trip to the Mississippi Gulf Coast after Katrina / Jeffrey T. Jackson and Kirsten A. Dellinger; title: Pt. 3. (Ir)Rationality as a tool for making disaster-related decisions. Disaster and the irrationality of "rational" bureaucracy : daily life and the continuing struggles in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina / Timothy J. Haney; title: My Aunt Po : collective memories shaping collective responses / Sarah Stohlman; title: Using Simmel to survive : the blase attitude as a disaster reaction and response / Jessica W. Pardee; title: The first major U.S. urban evacuation : Houston and the social construction of risk / Pamela Behan; title: Pt. 4. After the storm : navigating new meanings of self and city. Trauma written in flesh : tattoos as memorials and stories / Glenn W. Gentry and Derek H. Alderman; title: A Bricolage of loss / Donna Maria Bonner; title: Hurricane Katrina : a turning point for families / Nicole Buras; title: Isn't New Orleans back to normal? a dramaturgical analysis of post-Katrina New Orleans / Carolyn Corrado and Tamara L. Smith.