Social patterns of natural disasters: The case of hurricane Katrina

Public perception and imagination tend to view natural disasters and catastrophes as phenomena that impact everyone equally. However, they do not occur in a historical, political, economic or social vacuum. Every phase and aspect of a disaster - its causes, vulnerability, preparedness, aftermath, r...

Descripción completa

Guardado en:

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales:	Mirko Filipović, Sonja Žakula
Formato:	article
Lenguaje:	EN FR SR
Publicado:	University of Belgrade 2017
Materias:	catastrophe poverty class race bureaucracy crime Anthropology GN1-890
Acceso en línea:	https://doaj.org/article/9e4910ba11e9496e91dab992e440cf86
Etiquetas:	Agregar Etiqueta Sin Etiquetas, Sea el primero en etiquetar este registro!

id	oai:doaj.org-article:9e4910ba11e9496e91dab992e440cf86
record_format	dspace
spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:9e4910ba11e9496e91dab992e440cf862021-12-04T19:23:16ZSocial patterns of natural disasters: The case of hurricane Katrina10.21301/v12i1.90353-15892334-8801https://doaj.org/article/9e4910ba11e9496e91dab992e440cf862017-03-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.eap-iea.org/index.php/eap/article/view/265https://doaj.org/toc/0353-1589https://doaj.org/toc/2334-8801 Public perception and imagination tend to view natural disasters and catastrophes as phenomena that impact everyone equally. However, they do not occur in a historical, political, economic or social vacuum. Every phase and aspect of a disaster - its causes, vulnerability, preparedness, aftermath, response, reconstruction, the scope of the disaster and the price paid in the end are, to a lesser or greater extent, socially conditioned. Natural disasters actually replicate and amplify existing social inequalities and their effects. Such was also the case with hurricane Katrina. Black people, the poor, the elderly... remained in sunken New Orleans because their economic and social exclusion diminished their possibility to escape the disaster (the same way it diminished their opportunity to escape poverty). Had Katrina been a mere accident of geography and ecology, it would have been possible to peacefully await the resolution of its aftermath. However, because the inequalities which Katrina made apparent have deep socio-historical roots, it was illusory to expect that they would be repaired by the public policies on offer. Because of this, Katrina remains a powerful reminder to those advocating for a more just and democratic society. Mirko FilipovićSonja ŽakulaUniversity of BelgradearticlecatastrophepovertyclassracebureaucracycrimeAnthropologyGN1-890ENFRSREtnoantropološki Problemi, Vol 12, Iss 1 (2017)
institution	DOAJ
collection	DOAJ
language	EN FR SR
topic	catastrophe poverty class race bureaucracy crime Anthropology GN1-890
spellingShingle	catastrophe poverty class race bureaucracy crime Anthropology GN1-890 Mirko Filipović Sonja Žakula Social patterns of natural disasters: The case of hurricane Katrina
description	Public perception and imagination tend to view natural disasters and catastrophes as phenomena that impact everyone equally. However, they do not occur in a historical, political, economic or social vacuum. Every phase and aspect of a disaster - its causes, vulnerability, preparedness, aftermath, response, reconstruction, the scope of the disaster and the price paid in the end are, to a lesser or greater extent, socially conditioned. Natural disasters actually replicate and amplify existing social inequalities and their effects. Such was also the case with hurricane Katrina. Black people, the poor, the elderly... remained in sunken New Orleans because their economic and social exclusion diminished their possibility to escape the disaster (the same way it diminished their opportunity to escape poverty). Had Katrina been a mere accident of geography and ecology, it would have been possible to peacefully await the resolution of its aftermath. However, because the inequalities which Katrina made apparent have deep socio-historical roots, it was illusory to expect that they would be repaired by the public policies on offer. Because of this, Katrina remains a powerful reminder to those advocating for a more just and democratic society.
format	article
author	Mirko Filipović Sonja Žakula
author_facet	Mirko Filipović Sonja Žakula
author_sort	Mirko Filipović
title	Social patterns of natural disasters: The case of hurricane Katrina
title_short	Social patterns of natural disasters: The case of hurricane Katrina
title_full	Social patterns of natural disasters: The case of hurricane Katrina
title_fullStr	Social patterns of natural disasters: The case of hurricane Katrina
title_full_unstemmed	Social patterns of natural disasters: The case of hurricane Katrina
title_sort	social patterns of natural disasters: the case of hurricane katrina
publisher	University of Belgrade
publishDate	2017
url	https://doaj.org/article/9e4910ba11e9496e91dab992e440cf86
work_keys_str_mv	AT mirkofilipovic socialpatternsofnaturaldisastersthecaseofhurricanekatrina AT sonjazakula socialpatternsofnaturaldisastersthecaseofhurricanekatrina
_version_	1718372690025250816

Social patterns of natural disasters: The case of hurricane Katrina

Ejemplares similares