Bearing Witness
Assumptions, Realities, and the Otherizing of Katrina
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2464264 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robbie Ethridge (0000-0003-4829-8240, University of Mississippi, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 108 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 799-813 |
| Publication date | 2006-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Anthropologist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7294 • E-ISSN: 1548-1433 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1525/aa.2006.108.4.799 |
| OpenAlex | W2095258147 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 7 |
As post-Katrina rebuilding of Louisiana and Mississippi proceeds, we should heed the lessons from anthropologists and others studying aid and development in other parts of the world who point out that aid is often predicated on poorly examined assumptions about beneficiaries and local conditions. Hence, as the recovery after Katrina continues, assumptions about the U.S. South and about poverty, race, and class in the United States must be exposed and examined as well as assumptions about disaster victims and relief. Drawing on personal experiences, I examine here some of the assumptions with which I operated as a small group of friends and I organized an unofficial relief team to provide whatever aid we could to people on the Mississippi Gulf coast in the first few weeks after Hurricane Katrina. I recount the disconnections between my assumptions and the local conditions as relayed by Katrina survivors or that members of the team and I witnessed firsthand
Class (philosophy · Criminology · Geography · Hurricane katrina · Natural disaster · Political science · Poverty · Race (biology · Sociology · Witness · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration · Disaster Management and Resilience · Gender Studies · History · Law · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,39 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2019 (12) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |