Recovering Inequality - Hurricane Katrina, San Francisco Earthquake of 1906, Aftermath of

This comparative case study of the recovery outcomes from two of the most devastating urban catastrophes in American history lays bare the social inequality inherent in racially arranged, capital-based economies.

List of contents

• Acknowledgments
• Foreword by Anthony Oliver-Smith
• From Whence Recovery? A Prelude
• I. An Introduction
  • 1. “The Earth Dragon” and “Miss Katrina”
  • 2. Geographies of Inequality: A Sketch of Two Cities Spanning a Century
• II. Deranging and Rekindling
  • 3. The Great Derangements
  • 4. Fashioning “the Looter”: Rekindling Racial and Class Kinds
• III. Rebooting Inequality, the Road to Recovery
  • 5. Disaster Relief: Parsing the Vernaculars of Worthiness
  • 6. Spatial Accumulation by Dispossession: Two Attempts to Rob the Marginal
  • 7. One City Necessary, One City Expendable
• By Way of Closing
• Notes
• Index




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By Steve Kroll-Smith



Summary

This comparative case study of the recovery outcomes from two of the most devastating urban catastrophes in American history lays bare the social inequality inherent in racially arranged, capital-based economies.

Product details

• Authors: J. Stephen Kroll-Smith, Steve Kroll-Smith
• Publisher: University Of Texas Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2018
• EAN: 9781477316115
• ISBN: 978-1-4773-1611-5
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: The Katrina Bookshelf
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature and society: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories