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Hurricane Katrina - Proble people, problem
places
- Wider social relations of inequality
- Impoverished and 'disorderly' people
- Disadvantaged or excluded groups
- Poverty often viewed as a deficiency
- Impoverished population
- Impoverished population
- Poverty often viewed as a deficiency
- Disadvantaged or excluded groups
- Impoverished and 'disorderly' people
- New Orleans Hurricane Katrina
- Primarily in areas home
to predominantly black,
working class people,
elderly, children
- 80% New O inundated in toxic
floodwater
- 1000 dead
- Billions dollard damage
- Billions dollard damage
- 1000 dead
- Most televised natural disaster ever
- Some said social disaster
- Some said social disaster
- August 2005
- Primarily in areas home
to predominantly black,
working class people,
elderly, children
- Shaming of America
- Govt failure to act
- Political Indifference
- Political Indifference
- Touched a nerve social
inequalities between rich and
poor
- Bush Administration
- Failed to address the sense of vulnerability & injustice felt by poor in
urban America
- Failed to address the sense of vulnerability & injustice felt by poor in
urban America
- Govt failure to act
- Media - most televised natural disaster continental USA
- Reports - looting, rape, murder, street violence
- Social organisation broke down into anarchy!!!
- Floods did give rise to looting
and other criminal behaviours
but reporting was
sensationalised
- Social organisation broke down into anarchy!!!
- Reports - looting, rape, murder, street violence
- Escape
- Eye witness testimony contradicted the claims of social disorder and anarchy
- Callous and
hostile law
enforcement
- lying about
escape
routes,
barring the
wa, firing
weapons
- Verablly berated and humiliated
- Verablly berated and humiliated
- Inustice
- Some attempts to find food etc resulted in looting
- People
couldnt
wait for
govt -
taking too
long
- Contrary to representations of poor
people being passive and idlle those
affected were not prepared/unable to
wait to sit out disaster until govt chose
to repond - they mobilised themselves
to find safety and to protest to the
injustices they suffered
- Contrary to representations of poor
people being passive and idlle those
affected were not prepared/unable to
wait to sit out disaster until govt chose
to repond - they mobilised themselves
to find safety and to protest to the
injustices they suffered
- People
couldnt
wait for
govt -
taking too
long
- Some attempts to find food etc resulted in looting
- Callous and
hostile law
enforcement
- lying about
escape
routes,
barring the
wa, firing
weapons
- Bridge
connecting black
new orleans to
white suburbs
- Eye witness testimony contradicted the claims of social disorder and anarchy
- Cochrane and Talbot 2008
- Smith,2006
- Davis 2006
- Graham, 2006
- Smith,2006
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