... primarily by the tragic events of Hurricane Katrina, which intensified longing for a black leader who could quell the crisis. Revisiting this event helps me track efforts to recuperate a male leader that conform to popular ideas about how social movements proceed but which ignore the need for different...

...Vincanne Adams Processes of recovery in post-Katrina New Orleans were slowed by privatization of institutional public resources meant to help people return and rebuild. This article explores the specific relationships among private-sector corporations contracted by the government to help...

...Aric Mayer Copyright 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 doxa at large Aesthetics of Catastrophe Aric Mayer In late August 2005, Hurricane Katrina formed...

...Craig Calhoun Duke University Press 2006 D O X A AT L A R G E The Privatization of Risk Craig Calhoun The Hurricane Katrina disaster shocked Americans, at least...

... Mallard, and Christopher Otter. Public Culture 19:2  doi 10.1215/08992363-2006-035 Copyright 2007 by Duke University Press 2 4 7 Public Culture is framed by a discussion of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, which revealed both the centrality...

... U.S.-based photographer and artist. His solo exhibi- tion of color photographs titled Balance + Disorder: A Response to Hurricane Katrina and the Photographic Landscape was held at Gallery Bienvenu in New Orleans to commemorate the first anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Mayer’s work has...

... their second home. In the conflicted terrain of post-Katrina New Orleans, perhaps nothing better reveals the traces of Hollywood than the shifting array of film location signs that sprout and disappear unevenly across the city (see fig. 1 ). Their ephemeral geography speaks to the double-voiced meaning...

... that humanitarianism must be understood today as a global form of governing, one that exceeds both the state and the market. But Adams’s analysis of the reconstruction of post-­Katrina New Orleans reminds us that the production of humanitarian goods is also often the making of market rule. Indeed...

... Press. Karkazis, Katrina. 2008. Fixing Sex: Intersex, Medical Authority, and Lived Experience. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. Kauanui, J. Kehaulani. 2008. Hawaiian Blood: Colonialism and the Politics of Sovereignty and Indigeneity. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. Levi, Heather...

... Arjomand, that explore everyday life in two cities still undergoing fraught recoveries from Hurricane Katrina and the war in Afghanistan, respectively. In “Signs of Home,” Mayer describes how the film and media industries’ transformation of New Orleans into Hollywood South has privatized public space...

... to befall the United States until Hurricane Katrina ( Watson 1996) . Spawned by snowmelt and record-breaking rains that dramatically raised river levels, it flooded over thirty thousand square miles of land across nine states ( Ayres 1993) , breaching more than one thousand levees ( FEMA 2003 : xiii...

... include contemporary U.S. childhood as spectacle, the intertwined spatialities of homeland and home-based security, and activism, social reproduction, and the enduring effects of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. Saba Mahmood is associate...

... iii Public Culture “It’s Hard Out Here for a Pimp . . . with . . . a Whole Lot of Bitches Jumpin’ Ship”: Navigating Black Politics in the Wake of Katrina  343 Michael Ralph The Wrench and the Ratchet: Cultural Mediation...

... Katrina as the ground zero of African American politics; and more . . . v Call for Contributions Miscellany: A collection of various kinds, especially news clippings, literary extracts, postcards, and images. Includes...

... climatic events such as the European heat wave of 2003 or Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and was further confirmed by events as diverse as the grain market crisis in 2007–8; historically unprecedented drought and forest fires in Syria, Texas, Russia, Australia, and California; precipitous Arctic ice loss...

... of this pro- cess. Editorials by Craig Calhoun and by Fernando Escalante Gonzalbo set the stage, with pointed discussions of the privatization of risk (so painfully exposed by Hurricane Katrina) and of the consolidation of a corporate-controlled simu- lacrum of civil society in contemporary Latin...

.... The articles, Roy writes, explore those “zones of intimacy where poverty is encountered through volunteerism, philanthropy, and other acts of (neo)liberal benevolence” and take us from Africa to India and post- ­Katrina New Orleans. Collectively, these articles document the resilience of the market...

..., how can an institution with color-blind policies discriminate? This type of thinking was evident in Obama’s assessment of the federal government’s disastrous handling of Hurricane Katrina when he called the response “color-blind.” 4 According to postracialists who believe in the classical civil...

... of the Katrina fiasco, for example, represents a real destabilization of the spectacle, in which images revealing power in all its real incompetence and callousness end by eroding power’s grip on the social totality. This is naive. It again wishes to attri...

... success that so few Americans, even among Bush’s most virulent opponents, ever consider the possibility that the aftermath of 9/11 could have gone any other way. In the event, even “the decider” ultimately ran aground, after his criminally negligent handling of Hurricane Katrina, the descent...