Waiting in the Lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans

A Case Study of the Tempography of Hyper-Marginalization

Bibliographic Data

ID2049271
AuthorsDaina Cheyenne Harvey (0000-0001-8527-0293, College of the Holy Cross, corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume38
Issue4
Pages539-556
Publication date2015-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSymbolic Interaction (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0195-6086 • E-ISSN: 1533-8665
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/symb.185
OpenAlexW1861628815
LanguageEN
Citations received8
References cited24

In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina residents were forced to wait. Here the state played a familiar role where waiting is used to dominate or subordinate or further marginalize the poor. Residents of the Lower Ninth Ward, however, used waiting as a basis for interacting with other community members and as a way to structure social life. In doing so, they created a timescape of hyper-marginalization where waiting became normative. In examining this timescape, I conduct a tempography of the neighborhood and distinguish between three forms of waiting as interaction

Criminology · Ninth · Normative · Political science · Sociology · Computer Science · Homelessness and Social Issues · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology · Urban Planning and Governance · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies

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