Disastrous Social Theory - Lessons From New Orleans
The current issue of Space and Culture is now available with links to the abstracts below.
Disastrous Social Theory—Lessons From New Orleans: Editorial Introduction by Joost Van Loon and Simon Charlesworth
“Contemporary social theory struggles to deal with disasters not just because of epistemological shortcomings regarding the continued dualistic nature of its dealings with social phenomena and events, relegating disasters to the real of ‘extraordinary events,’ but also because it has effectively foreclosed on its ability to deal with social reality. The latter is less the consequence of epistemic shortcomings but itself a social by-product of the institutionalization of social thought in the academy. Divorced from an ability to come to terms with social reality, because it lacks both an empirical grounding and a sense of urgency to understand that which lies outside the comfort zone of academic life, social theory is left rather aimlessly afloat amid a sea of debris that signals that the apocalypse has already happened.”
Space and Culture Volume 9, No. 1
Lester Spence - The Deaths Could Have Been Prevented
Marcia Alesan Dawkins - A Rhetorical Response to Hurricane Katrina
James C. Fraser - The Relevance of Human Geography for Studying Urban Disasters
Urbano Fra Paleo - Site and Situation: Impossible but Inevitable Cities
Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley - On Flexible Urbanism
Fernando Lara - In the Dark All You Have Left Is Architecture
Daren C. Brabham - Noticing Design/Recognizing Failure in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina
Harvey Molotch - Death on the Roof: Race and Bureaucratic Failure
Matthew Tiessen - Speed, Desire, and Inaction in New Orleans: Like a Stick in the Spokes
Martin Kich - Those Who Overstate the Lessons of the Past Are Condemned to Draw Erroneous Conclusions
Matt Sakakeeny - Resounding Silence in the Streets of a Musical City
Timothy Gibson - New Orleans and the Wisdom of Lived Space
Chad Lavin and Chris Russill - The Buoyancy of Failure: Battling Nature in New Orleans
Judith Pintar - Rethinking Trauma in the Hurricane’s Wake
William V. Faux, II and Heeman Kim - Visual Representation of the Victims of Hurricane Katrina: A Dialectical Approach to Content Analysis and Discourse
Hugh Bartling - Suburbia, Mobility, and Urban Calamities
Stephen Graham - “Homeland” Insecurities?: Katrina and the Politics of “Security” in Metropolitan America
C. Tabor Fisher - The Position of the Theorist in the Lower Ninth Ward
DeMond Shondell Miller - Visualizing the Corrosive Community: Looting in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina
Adam Burgess - The Shock of a Social Disaster in an Age of (Nonsocial) Risk
Peter S. Alagona - What Makes a Disaster “Natural”?
Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria - Urban Calamities: A View From Mumbai
Katherine Fry - Television News: Hero for New Orleans, Hero for the Nation
Matthew Gandy - The Drowned World: J. G. Ballard and the Politics of Catastrophe
Michael Dear - Remembering Katrina: But Please, No Photos of Dead People
Daina Cheyenne Harvey - “Mise en Fiction du Monde”: Les Lieux de Mémoire and New Orleans
Norman K. Denzin - Katrina and the Collapse of Civil Society in New Orleans
Nigel Clark - Offering
Jacob A. Wagner - Creole Urbanism: Searching for an Urban Future in the Flooded Streets of New Orleans
Rob Shields and Matthew Tiessen - New Orleans and Other Urban Calamities
January 2nd, 2006 at 5:54 pm
It appears you forgot to include the link to Hugh Bartling’s “Suburbia, Mobility, and Urban Calamities”
http://sac.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/9/1/60
January 3rd, 2006 at 6:56 am
Sorry - now fixed!
April 5th, 2006 at 5:50 pm
Hey there, It seems that two more links have gone “inactive”… could you fix them?
Lester Spence - The Deaths Could Have Been Prevented
Rob Shields and Matthew Tiessen - New Orleans and Other Urban Calamities
April 6th, 2006 at 6:30 am
Karen - those aren’t inactive; they’re simply not links. All links lead to abstracts only, and there are no abstracts for those two papers. Please access the full-text journal articles through your university library.