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Recovering Inequality : Hurricane Katrina, the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906, and the Aftermath of Disaster by Steve Kroll-Smith; Anthony Oliver-Smith is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Recovering Inequality : Hurricane Katrina, the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906, and the Aftermath of Disaster about?

A lethal mix of natural disaster, dangerously flawed construction, and reckless human actions devastated San Francisco in 1906 and New Orleans in 2005. Eighty percent of the built environments of both cities were destroyed in the catastrophes, and the poor, the elderly, and the medically infirm were disproportionately among the thousands who perished. These striking similarities in the impacts of cataclysms separated by a century impelled Steve Kroll-Smith to look for commonalities in how the cities recovered from disaster. In Recovering Inequality , he builds a convincing case that disaster recovery and the reestablishment of social and economic inequality are inseparable. Kroll-Smith demonstrates that disaster and recovery in New Orleans and San Francisco followed a similar pattern. In the immediate aftermath of the flooding and the firestorm, social boundaries were disordered and the communities came together in expressions of unity and support. But these were quickly replaced by other narratives and actions, including the depiction of the poor as looters, uneven access to disaster assistance, and successful efforts by the powerful to take valuable urban real estate from vulner

Who reads Recovering Inequality : Hurricane Katrina, the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906, and the Aftermath of Disaster?

Author

Steve Kroll-Smith; Anthony Oliver-Smith

Publisher

University of Texas Press

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781477316115

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Management, Sociology