Before the Storm”
Hurricane Katrina, the BP Oil Spill, and the Challenges to Racial Hierarchies in Rural Louisiana
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15445210 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Seumas Bates (University of Glasgow, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 65-85 |
| Publication date | 2017-02-07 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Nature and Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1558-6073 • E-ISSN: 1558-5468 |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3167/nc.2017.120105 |
| OpenAlex | W2587509195 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 32 |
By conceptualizing the recovery from Hurricane Katrina and the Deepwater Horizon/BP oil spill as forming part of ongoing processes of “becoming” and the everyday, this article explores how the relative power of a historically privileged group of White males in rural Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, faced significant challenge. First, through the breakdown of informal racial segregation in local social institutions, and through the newly ubiquitous nature of mobile homes threatening their rejection of “trailer trash” culture. Second, however, this impact must be understood within ongoing changes across wider American society, where a locally valorized ideal of normative 1950s culture was seen to be in conflict with the civil rights and feminist movements of the late twentieth century. This imagined cultural hegemony was therefore in serious decline long before these catastrophes, yet has now been confined to the time “before the Storm.”
Citizen journalism · Criminology · Environmental ethics · Environmental protection · Geography · Hegemony · Hurricane katrina · Natural disaster · Oil spill · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Sociology · Storm · White (mutation · American Environmental and Regional History · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Law · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
Catastrophe and Culture
Not Quite White
American Anatomies
Social Dimensions of Disaster Recovery
Diversifying the Dialogue Post‐katrina—race, Place, and Displacement in New Orleans, U.S.A
Hurricane Katrina and the Forgotten Coast of Mississippi
Heads above Water
White Nation
Violence Against Women in Disasters
Reading Trash
The Gendered Nature of Disasters
It’ll Never Be the White Kids, It’ll Always Be Us”
Gender for the 99 per cent (Respond to this article at http
Hurricane Katrina and Mental Health
The Angry Earth
Urban disaster recovery
Of reds and rednecks
Race, class, and Hurricane Katrina
What's to Fear from Immigrants? Creating an Assimilationist Threat Scale
The Perception of the Environment
American Anatomies
Learning from New Orleans
Confederate Lane
Putting the Ninth Ward on the Map
Intimate apartheid
Invisible Racism
Once You Go to a White School, You Kind of Adapt
Change among the Gatekeepers
Unpopular culture
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |