Losing Ground

Identity and Land Loss in Coastal Louisiana

Dados Bibliográficos

ID20002342
AutoresDavid Burley (0000-0003-4820-2894), David M Burley, Sara Crosby, T Mayheart Dardar
Ano2010
Data de publicação2010-04-26
Open AccessNão
TipoBOOK
PeriódicoLosing ground (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraUniversity Press of Mississippi (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.14325/mississippi/9781604734881.001.0001
OpenAlexW4246526272
Open LibraryOL23971619M
ISBN9781604734881
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas11
Referências citadas2

What is it like to lose your front porch to the ocean? To watch saltwater destroy your favorite fishing holes? To see playgrounds and churches subside and succumb to brackish and rising water? The residents of coastal Louisiana know. For them hurricanes are but exclamation points in an incessant loss of coastal land now estimated to occur at a rate of at least twenty-four square miles per year. In this book, coastal Louisianans communicate the significance of place and environment. During interviews taken just before the 2005 hurricanes, they send out a plea to alleviate the damage. They speak with an urgency that exemplifies a fear of losing not just property and familiar surroundings, but their identity as well. People along Louisiana's southeastern coast hold a deep attachment to place, and this shows in the urgency of the narratives collected here. The meanings that residents attribute to coastal land loss reflect a tenuous and uprooted sense of self. The process of coastal land loss and all of its social components, from the familial to the political, impacts these residents' concepts of history and the future. The book includes updates for many of the subjects' narratives to reveal what has happened in the wake of the back-to-back disasters of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita

Aesthetics · Art · Geography · Disaster Management and Resilience · Environmental Science · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Geology · Place Attachment and Urban Studies · Urban and Rural Development Challenges · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies · Coast changes · Coastal settlements · Coastal zone management · environmental conditions · Gulf Coast Region · Identity (Psychology) · Louisiana · Natural History · Place attachment · Psychological aspects · united states · Oceanography