The Neoliberal Deluge
Hurricane Katrina, Late Capitalism, and the Remaking of New Orleans
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5706012 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J Mark Souther (0000-0001-8090-7056, Cleveland State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 99 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 682-683 |
| Publication date | 2012-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of American History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8723 • E-ISSN: 1945-2314 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jahist/jas297 |
| OpenAlex | W2000199117 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
Even before the floodwaters abated in New Orleans in late 2005, commentators began to question characterizations of Hurricane Katrina's devastation as a natural disaster. Many scholars have explored the ways the historic flood was also a human-made catastrophe, focusing variously on inadequate government planning for evacuating and sheltering residents, long-term policy decisions that left the Crescent City's levees vulnerable, and the social geography of inequality that placed some at greater risk than others. Cedric Johnson's edited volume, The Neoliberal Deluge, comprising twelve essays mostly by sociologists, political scientists, and communication scholars, makes a sustained case that the disaster of Katrina is rooted in something more pervasive and fundamental: global neoliberal restructuring. Johnson and his contributors understand neoliberalism as an anti-Keynesian ideology in which a state divests itself of social spending in favor of privatized, market-driven solutions. The authors claim that this paradigm, which emerged full-blown in the United States during the Ronald Reagan presidency, is more critical to understanding modern American society than is neoconservatism because the latter often presupposes that socially conservative and fiscally libertarian agendas drove political change. Thus, while The Neoliberal Deluge is a new interpretation of the 2005 disaster, it is chiefly a case study of how neoliberal society creates and manages crises
Capitalism · Geography · Ideology · Natural disaster · Neoliberalism (international relations · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Restructuring · Sociology · Underclass · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Public Administration
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.43 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2024 (13) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |