Shirley Laska
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 138840 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Shirley Laska |
| NOMBRES | Shirley |
| APELLIDO | Laska |
| FIRMA | LASKA S |
| AFILIACIONES | University of New Orleans |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 28 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 101 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1981 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Converging together to confront multiple intersecting and cascading disasters
Purpose The Disaster Justice Network (DJN) is a volunteer network that emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic to lend support and share critical information that was not easily accessed for the 2020 and 2021 Hurricanes Laura, Delta, Zeta and Ida recovery processes in coastal Louisiana. We discuss lessons learned on navigating challenges, questions and the possibilities for reducing harms and how these insights potentially transfer to other webs of …
Planning for resettlement
Markets of Sorrow, Labors of Faith
Invisible Colleges and Mashups, Some Thoughts
The Convergence of Catastrophes and Social Change the Role of Participatory Action Research in Support of the New Engaged Citizen
Obsolete and Irreversible
While “economic development” projects have long been proposed and supported by local growth machine elites, technological change has affected the social desirability of large projects in three ways. First, large development projects—we examine water transportation—have grown in size, meaning that backers often seek public funding. With increased size and the need for external funding, many years or decades can elapse by the time a project can be …
Disproportionality and Disaster
Objectives. Although many observers have interpreted Hurricane Katrina's damage to New Orleans as a case of nature striking humans, we draw on the sociological concept of the growth machine to show that much of the damage resulted instead from what humans had done to nature—in the name but not the reality of “economic development.” Methods. We triangulate findings from multiple qualitative techniques, including first‐hand fieldwork, interviews, a…
The “Mother of All Rorschachs”
Organizing Hazards, Engineering Disasters? Improving the Recognition of Political-Economic Factors in the Creation of Disasters
Disaster studies have made important progress in recognizing the unequally distributed consequences of disasters, but there has been less progress in analyzing social factors that help create “natural” disasters. Even well-known patterns of hazard-creation tend to be interpreted generically — as representing “economic development” or “capitalism” — rather than through focusing on the more specific dynamics involved. We illustrate this point with …
What If Hurricane Ivan Had Not Missed New Orleans
Author's Note: As I was developing the hypothetical situation depicting a devastating hurricane striking New Orleans, Louisiana, the disaster waiting to happen threatened to become a reality: Hurricane Ivan, a Category 4 hurricane (140 mph winds) fluctuating to a Category 5 (up to 155 mph winds), was slowly moving directly toward New Orleans. Forecasters were predicting a one-in-four chance that Ivan would remain on this direct path and would be …
Place Attachment and Environmental Change in Coastal Louisiana
This article examines how residents of communities frame environmental change. Specifically, how do respondents from Louisiana's coastal communities understand coastal wetland loss? For this article, the authors rely on 47 in-depth interviews from communities in two coastal parishes (counties). Respondents convey the meanings they give to land loss through constructing a narrative of place. The authors use a phenomenological approach that focuses…
Reconstruction of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina
Four propositions drawn from 60 years of natural hazard and reconstruction research provide a comparative and historical perspective on the reconstruction of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Decisions taken over its 288-year history that have made New Orleans so vulnerable to Katrina reflect a long-term pattern of societal response to hazard events—reducing consequences to relatively frequent events, and increasing vulnerability to very large…
Social Vulnerabilities and Hurricane Katrina
Social science research on natural disasters documents how a natural hazard such as a hurricane becomes a disaster through social processes and social structures that place human populations in general, and certain segments in particular, at risk. After a description of Hurricane Katrina and its impact, we describe how patterns of land development, and the economic and political history of New Orleans, set the stage for this disaster. An overview…
Losing Ground in Southern Louisiana
Theoretical stances and environmental debates
Caught in the Net
Shrimpers, conservationists, and coastal development
In 1989, the shrimpers of the Gulf and South Atlantic staged the largest protest of fishery regulations in the history of the United States. Arguing that the mandated turtle excluder devices (TEDs) were still another ploy to remove commercial harvesters from the coasts of America, many shrimpers refused to “pull” TEDs. In order to examine the marine resource conflicts among competing users, we interviewed parties to, not only the TEDs conflict, b…
Captives of conflict
A brief history of the conflict over the initially voluntary and subsequently mandated turtle excluder devices (TEDs) is given. Using surveys, focused interviews, and documentary evidence, the major stakeholders in the marine environment are profiled. Analysis is focused on the way each party to the environmental controversy over the protection of sea turtles contributed to escalating the conflict. It is argued that contenders for the resource be…
Environmental Sociology and the State of the Discipline
Sociology as a discipline has recently been confronted with several challenges, including questions of the existence and nature of its intellectual core, the impact of specialization on its integrity, and its relevancy. In this article I examine a relatively new specialty, environmental sociology, which has some unique qualities that make it a useful vehicle for seeking an understanding of and resolution to these disciplinary problems. The proble…
Development and Social Problems
There are few studies in the literature concerning economic development that examine the impact of offshore oil and gas extraction on communities and even fewer that use annual data, examine more than one community and account for the degree of involvement of the community in the oil industry. This study rectifies these problems. The results support hypotheses derived from social disorganization and relative deprivation theories by demonstrating …
Sociology of Disasters
Human System Responses to Disasters
Rebuilding America's Cities
Back to the City
Back to the City
Back to the City
Environmental Sociology and the State of the Discipline
Sociology as a discipline has recently been confronted with several challenges, including questions of the existence and nature of its intellectual core, the impact of specialization on its integrity, and its relevancy. In this article I examine a relatively new specialty, environmental sociology, which has some unique qualities that make it a useful vehicle for seeking an understanding of and resolution to these disciplinary problems. The proble…
Development and Social Problems
There are few studies in the literature concerning economic development that examine the impact of offshore oil and gas extraction on communities and even fewer that use annual data, examine more than one community and account for the degree of involvement of the community in the oil industry. This study rectifies these problems. The results support hypotheses derived from social disorganization and relative deprivation theories by demonstrating …
Organizing Hazards, Engineering Disasters? Improving the Recognition of Political-Economic Factors in the Creation of Disasters
Disaster studies have made important progress in recognizing the unequally distributed consequences of disasters, but there has been less progress in analyzing social factors that help create “natural” disasters. Even well-known patterns of hazard-creation tend to be interpreted generically — as representing “economic development” or “capitalism” — rather than through focusing on the more specific dynamics involved. We illustrate this point with …
Inner-City Reinvestment
Renovation activity within 68 census tracts comprising old New Orleans, Louisiana, neighborhoods, as measured by real estate transfer (sales) rates, were estimated from a series of social, demographic, housing and locational characteristics of the tracts. The physical remnants of the nineteenth-century city - as measured by architectural design, age of housing and to some extent location of earlier wealthy neighborhoods - were more predictive of …
What If Hurricane Ivan Had Not Missed New Orleans
Author's Note: As I was developing the hypothetical situation depicting a devastating hurricane striking New Orleans, Louisiana, the disaster waiting to happen threatened to become a reality: Hurricane Ivan, a Category 4 hurricane (140 mph winds) fluctuating to a Category 5 (up to 155 mph winds), was slowly moving directly toward New Orleans. Forecasters were predicting a one-in-four chance that Ivan would remain on this direct path and would be …
Planning for resettlement
Obsolete and Irreversible
While “economic development” projects have long been proposed and supported by local growth machine elites, technological change has affected the social desirability of large projects in three ways. First, large development projects—we examine water transportation—have grown in size, meaning that backers often seek public funding. With increased size and the need for external funding, many years or decades can elapse by the time a project can be …
Shrimpers, conservationists, and coastal development
In 1989, the shrimpers of the Gulf and South Atlantic staged the largest protest of fishery regulations in the history of the United States. Arguing that the mandated turtle excluder devices (TEDs) were still another ploy to remove commercial harvesters from the coasts of America, many shrimpers refused to “pull” TEDs. In order to examine the marine resource conflicts among competing users, we interviewed parties to, not only the TEDs conflict, b…
Captives of conflict
A brief history of the conflict over the initially voluntary and subsequently mandated turtle excluder devices (TEDs) is given. Using surveys, focused interviews, and documentary evidence, the major stakeholders in the marine environment are profiled. Analysis is focused on the way each party to the environmental controversy over the protection of sea turtles contributed to escalating the conflict. It is argued that contenders for the resource be…
Disproportionality and Disaster
Objectives. Although many observers have interpreted Hurricane Katrina's damage to New Orleans as a case of nature striking humans, we draw on the sociological concept of the growth machine to show that much of the damage resulted instead from what humans had done to nature—in the name but not the reality of “economic development.” Methods. We triangulate findings from multiple qualitative techniques, including first‐hand fieldwork, interviews, a…
Theoretical stances and environmental debates
The “Mother of All Rorschachs”
Losing Ground in Southern Louisiana
Modernization, the Family and Work Socialization
This paper compares the occupational socialization experiences of samples of youth in New Orleans (USA) and Cali (Colombia). The principal objective is to determine how changes in family structure associated with societal modernization influence the transmission of knowledge about the labor force to young people seeking jobs for the first time. It is hypothesized that youth in transitional/traditional societies are socialized for the labor force …
Neighborhoods that Work
Back to the City
Inner-City Reinvestment
Renovation activity within 68 census tracts comprising old New Orleans, Louisiana, neighborhoods, as measured by real estate transfer (sales) rates, were estimated from a series of social, demographic, housing and locational characteristics of the tracts. The physical remnants of the nineteenth-century city - as measured by architectural design, age of housing and to some extent location of earlier wealthy neighborhoods - were more predictive of …
Back to the City
Rebuilding America's Cities
Human System Responses to Disasters
Sociology of Disasters
Captives of conflict
A brief history of the conflict over the initially voluntary and subsequently mandated turtle excluder devices (TEDs) is given. Using surveys, focused interviews, and documentary evidence, the major stakeholders in the marine environment are profiled. Analysis is focused on the way each party to the environmental controversy over the protection of sea turtles contributed to escalating the conflict. It is argued that contenders for the resource be…
Environmental Sociology and the State of the Discipline
Sociology as a discipline has recently been confronted with several challenges, including questions of the existence and nature of its intellectual core, the impact of specialization on its integrity, and its relevancy. In this article I examine a relatively new specialty, environmental sociology, which has some unique qualities that make it a useful vehicle for seeking an understanding of and resolution to these disciplinary problems. The proble…
Development and Social Problems
There are few studies in the literature concerning economic development that examine the impact of offshore oil and gas extraction on communities and even fewer that use annual data, examine more than one community and account for the degree of involvement of the community in the oil industry. This study rectifies these problems. The results support hypotheses derived from social disorganization and relative deprivation theories by demonstrating …
Shrimpers, conservationists, and coastal development
In 1989, the shrimpers of the Gulf and South Atlantic staged the largest protest of fishery regulations in the history of the United States. Arguing that the mandated turtle excluder devices (TEDs) were still another ploy to remove commercial harvesters from the coasts of America, many shrimpers refused to “pull” TEDs. In order to examine the marine resource conflicts among competing users, we interviewed parties to, not only the TEDs conflict, b…
Caught in the Net
Theoretical stances and environmental debates
Losing Ground in Southern Louisiana
Reconstruction of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina
Four propositions drawn from 60 years of natural hazard and reconstruction research provide a comparative and historical perspective on the reconstruction of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Decisions taken over its 288-year history that have made New Orleans so vulnerable to Katrina reflect a long-term pattern of societal response to hazard events—reducing consequences to relatively frequent events, and increasing vulnerability to very large…
Social Vulnerabilities and Hurricane Katrina
Social science research on natural disasters documents how a natural hazard such as a hurricane becomes a disaster through social processes and social structures that place human populations in general, and certain segments in particular, at risk. After a description of Hurricane Katrina and its impact, we describe how patterns of land development, and the economic and political history of New Orleans, set the stage for this disaster. An overview…
Place Attachment and Environmental Change in Coastal Louisiana
This article examines how residents of communities frame environmental change. Specifically, how do respondents from Louisiana's coastal communities understand coastal wetland loss? For this article, the authors rely on 47 in-depth interviews from communities in two coastal parishes (counties). Respondents convey the meanings they give to land loss through constructing a narrative of place. The authors use a phenomenological approach that focuses…
The “Mother of All Rorschachs”
Organizing Hazards, Engineering Disasters? Improving the Recognition of Political-Economic Factors in the Creation of Disasters
Disaster studies have made important progress in recognizing the unequally distributed consequences of disasters, but there has been less progress in analyzing social factors that help create “natural” disasters. Even well-known patterns of hazard-creation tend to be interpreted generically — as representing “economic development” or “capitalism” — rather than through focusing on the more specific dynamics involved. We illustrate this point with …
What If Hurricane Ivan Had Not Missed New Orleans
Author's Note: As I was developing the hypothetical situation depicting a devastating hurricane striking New Orleans, Louisiana, the disaster waiting to happen threatened to become a reality: Hurricane Ivan, a Category 4 hurricane (140 mph winds) fluctuating to a Category 5 (up to 155 mph winds), was slowly moving directly toward New Orleans. Forecasters were predicting a one-in-four chance that Ivan would remain on this direct path and would be …
Disproportionality and Disaster
Objectives. Although many observers have interpreted Hurricane Katrina's damage to New Orleans as a case of nature striking humans, we draw on the sociological concept of the growth machine to show that much of the damage resulted instead from what humans had done to nature—in the name but not the reality of “economic development.” Methods. We triangulate findings from multiple qualitative techniques, including first‐hand fieldwork, interviews, a…
The Convergence of Catastrophes and Social Change the Role of Participatory Action Research in Support of the New Engaged Citizen
Obsolete and Irreversible
While “economic development” projects have long been proposed and supported by local growth machine elites, technological change has affected the social desirability of large projects in three ways. First, large development projects—we examine water transportation—have grown in size, meaning that backers often seek public funding. With increased size and the need for external funding, many years or decades can elapse by the time a project can be …
Invisible Colleges and Mashups, Some Thoughts
Sociology (18 obras) · Geography (16 obras) · Political science (15 obras) · Disaster Management and Resilience (11 obras) · Law (10 obras) · Engineering (8 obras) · Psychology (8 obras) · Economics (7 obras) · History (7 obras) · Business (6 obras)