Code: 09251048

Left to Chance

Name: Left to Chance
Brand: University of Texas Press
SKU: 09251048
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by J Stephen Kroll-Smith, Vern K Baxter, Pamela Jenkins, Steve Kroll-Smith, Pam Jenkins

Language: English
Binding: Paperback
Number of pages: 180
Publisher: University of Texas Press, 2015
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How do survivors recover from the worst urban flood in American history, a disaster that destroyed nearly the entire physical landscape of a city, as well as the mental and emotional maps that people use to navigate their everyday lives? This question has haunted the survivors of Hurricane Katrina and informed the response to the subsequent flooding of New Orleans across many years."Left to Chance" takes us into two African American neighborhoods working-class Hollygrove and middle-class Pontchartrain Park to learn how their residents have experienced Miss Katrina and the long road back to normal life. The authors spent several years gathering firsthand accounts of the flooding, the rushed evacuations that turned into weeks- and months-long exile, and the often confusing and exhausting process of rebuilding damaged homes in a city whose local government had all but failed. As the residents stories make vividly clear, government and social science concepts such as disaster management, restoring normality, and recovery have little meaning for people whose worlds were washed away in the flood. For the neighbors in Hollygrove and Pontchartrain Park, life in the aftermath of Katrina has been a passage from all that was familiar and routine to an ominous world filled with raw existential uncertainty. Recovery and rebuilding become processes imbued with mysteries, accidental encounters, and hasty adaptations, while victories and defeats are left to chance."

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Book category Books in English Humanities History Regional & national history

29.96 €

Full title: Left to Chance
Subtitle: Hurricane Katrina and the Story of Two New Orleans Neighborhoods
Author: J Stephen Kroll-Smith, Vern K Baxter, Pamela Jenkins, Steve Kroll-Smith, Pam Jenkins
Language: English
Binding: Paperback
Number of pages: 180
EAN: 9781477303849
ISBN: 1477303847
ID: 09251048
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Weight: 292 g
Dimensions: 153 × 233 × 18 mm
Date of publishing: 01. September 2015