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Author Erikson, Kai, 1931- author

Title The continuing storm : learning from Katrina / Kai Erikson and Lori Peek
Edition 1st edition
Published Austin : University of Texas Press, 2022

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations, maps
Series The Katrina Bookshelf
Katrina bookshelf
Contents Part I: A hurricane known as Katrina -- Along the shores of the Gulf -- On the streets of New Orleans -- Part II: Locating Katrina -- In time -- In space -- Part III: Katrina as human experience -- Before: seeking out the most vulnerable -- During: being battered by the storm -- After: the pains of displacement
Summary More than fifteen years later, Hurricane Katrina maintains a strong grip on the American imagination. The reason is not simply that Katrina was an event of enormous scale, although it certainly was by any measure one of the most damaging storms in American history. But, quite apart from its lethality and destructiveness, Katrina retains a place in living memory because it is one of the most telling disasters in our recent national experience, revealing important truths about our society and ourselves. The final volume in the award-winning Katrina Bookshelf series Higher Ground reflects upon what we have learned about Katrina and about America. Kai Erikson and Lori Peek expand our view of the disaster by assessing its ongoing impact on individual lives and across the wide-ranging geographies where displaced New Orleanians landed after the storm. Such an expanded view, the authors argue, is critical for understanding the human costs of catastrophe across time and space. Concluding with a broader examination of disasters in the years since Katrina--including COVID-19--The Continuing Storm is a sobering meditation on the duration of a catastrophe that continues to exact steep costs in human suffering
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Hurricane Katrina, 2005 -- Social aspects
Natural disasters -- Social aspects -- United States
Disasters -- Social aspects -- United States
Disaster victims -- United States
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
Disaster victims
Disasters -- Social aspects
Natural disasters -- Social aspects
Social aspects
Social conditions
SUBJECT United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century
Subject United States
Form Electronic book
Author Peek, Lori A., author
LC no. 2021042950
ISBN 1477324356
9781477324356
Other Titles Learning from Katrina