Full Description
Creating Katrina, Rebuilding Resilience: Lessons from New Orleans on Vulnerability and Resiliency presents a unique, integrative understanding of Hurricane Katrina in the New Orleans area, and the progression to disaster vulnerability as well as resilience pathways. The book integrates the understanding of vulnerability and resiliency by examining the relationships among these two concepts and theories.
The disaster knowledge of diverse disciplines and professions is brought together in this book, with authors from social work, public health, community organizing, sociology, political science, public administration, psychology, anthropology, geography and the study of religion. The editors offer both expert and an insider perspectives on Katrina because they have lived in New Orleans and experienced Katrina and the recovery. An improved understanding of the recovery and reconstruction phases of disaster is also presented, and these disaster stages have been the least examined in the disaster and emergency management literature.
Contents
PART I. INTRODUCTION AND THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
1. Editors' introduction: The voices of the barefoot Scholars
2. Settlement shifts in the wake of catastrophe
3. Vulnerability-plus theory: The integration of community disaster vulnerability and resiliency theories
4. A systems approach to vulnerability and resilience in post-Katrina New Orleans
5. "Built-in structural violence and vulnerability: A common threat to resilient disaster recovery
PART II. DISASTER VULNERABILITY
6. Setting the Stage for the Katrina Catastrophe: Environmental Degradation, Engineering Miscalculation, Ignoring Science, and Human Mismanagement
7. Three centuries in the making: Hurricane Katrina from an historical perspective
8. The resilience in the shadows of catastrophe: Addressing the existence and implications of vulnerability in New Orleans and Southeastern Louisiana
9. Problematizing vulnerability: Unpacking gender, intersectionality, and the normative disaster paradigm
PART III. DISASTER RESILIENCE
10. Culture and resilience: How music has fostered resilience in post-Katrina New Orleans
11. Resilience among vulnerable populations: The neglected role of culture
12. Faith-based organizations in Katrina: The United Methodist Church
13. Collective efficacy, social capital and resilience: An inquiry into the relationship between social infrastructure and resilience after Hurricane Katrina
14. Dynamics of early recovery in two historically low-income New Orleans' neighborhoods: Treme' and Central City
PART IV. CONCLUSION AND LESSONS LEARNED
15. The Katrina catastrophe and science: Does experiencing a catastrophe at "ground zero have impacts on the professional performance/identity of social scientist survivors?
16. How barefoot scholars were deployed: The good, the bad, the ugly
17. Lessons learned from New Orleans on vulnerability, resilience, and their integration