Mississippi After Katrina - Disaster Recovery and Reconstruction on the Gulf Coast

In Mississippi After Katrina, Jennifer Trivedi takes an holistic anthropological lens to the city of Biloxi, Mississippi, and illustrates how Hurricane Katrina revealed the cultural, political, and economic issues that shaped the community's history, the storm's impact, and Biloxi's long-term recovery from Katrina.

List of contents

Dedication
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Hurricane Katrina, Biloxi, and the Past
Chapter 1: Setting the Scene
Chapter 2: Hurricane History
Chapter 3: Hurricane Katrina
Chapter 4: Trying to Go Home
Chapter 5: Recovering Over the Long Haul
Conclusions
Bibliography
About the Author

About the author

Jennifer Trivedi is assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology and member of the Disaster Recovery Research Center at the University of Delaware.

Summary

In Mississippi After Katrina, Jennifer Trivedi takes an holistic anthropological lens to the city of Biloxi, Mississippi, and illustrates how Hurricane Katrina revealed the cultural, political, and economic issues that shaped the community’s history, the storm’s impact, and Biloxi’s long-term recovery from Katrina.

Product details

• Authors: Jennifer Trivedi
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781793610133
• ISBN: 978-1-79361-013-3
• No. of pages: 262
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Mississippi, Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, NATURE / Natural Disasters, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, History of the Americas, Natural disasters, Disaster Recovery;Hurricanes;Natural Disasters