Markets of Sorrow, Labors of Faith New Orleans in the Wake of Katrina

Name: Markets of Sorrow, Labors of Faith New Orleans in the Wake of Katrina
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ISBN: 9780822354499

ISBN-10: 0822354497

ISBN-13: 9780822354499

Edition: 2013

Authors: Vincanne Adams

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Markets of Sorrow, Labors of Faithis an ethnographic account of long-term recovery in post-Katrina New Orleans. It is also a sobering exploration of the privatization of vital social services under market-driven governance. In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, public agencies subcontracted disaster relief to private companies that turned the humanitarian work of recovery into lucrative business. These enterprises profited from the very suffering that they failed to ameliorate, producing a second-order disaster that exacerbated inequalities based on race and class and leaving residents to rebuild almost entirely on their own.Filled with the often desperate voices of residents who returned to…

Book details

List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 3/4/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 248
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.20" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.770
Language: English




It's Not about Katrina



The Making of a Disaster



"If This Could Happen to Us, It Could Happen to Anyone"



Navigating the Road Home



Getting to the Breaking Point



Faith in a Volunteer Recovery



Charity, Philanthrocapitalism, and the Affect Economy



Katrina as the Future


Acknowledgments


Notes


Bibliography


Index