The Continuing Storm : : Learning from Katrina / / Lori Peek, Kai Erikson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
• VerfasserIn: Erikson, Kai,; Peek, Lori,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: The Katrina Bookshelf
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (160 p.) :; 11 b&w photos, 2 maps
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Prelude --; I A HURRICANE KNOWN AS KATRINA --; 1 ALONG THE SHORES OF THE GULF --; 2 ON THE STREETS OF NEW ORLEANS --; II LOCATING KATRINA --; 3 IN TIME --; 4 IN SPACE --; III KATRINA AS HUMAN EXPERIENCE --; 5 BEFORE: SEEKING OUT THE MOST VULNERABLE --; 6 DURING: BEING BATTERED BY THE STORM --; POSTLUDE --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; NOTES --; ABOUT THE AUTHORS --; INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781477324356; 9783110993899; 9783110994810; 9783110993752; 9783110993738; 9783110766516
• DOI: 10.7560/324332
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Lori Peek, Kai Erikson.

More than fifteen years later, Hurricane Katrina maintains a strong grip on the American imagination. The reason is not simply that Katrina was an event of enormous scale, although it certainly was by any measure one of the most damaging storms in American history. But, quite apart from its lethality and destructiveness, Katrina retains a place in living memory because it is one of the most telling disasters in our recent national experience, revealing important truths about our society and ourselves. The final volume in the award-winning Katrina Bookshelf series Higher Ground reflects upon what we have learned about Katrina and about America. Kai Erikson and Lori Peek expand our view of the disaster by assessing its ongoing impact on individual lives and across the wide-ranging geographies where displaced New Orleanians landed after the storm. Such an expanded view, the authors argue, is critical for understanding the human costs of catastrophe across time and space. Concluding with a broader examination of disasters in the years since Katrina—including COVID-19—The Continuing Storm is a sobering meditation on the duration of a catastrophe that continues to exact steep costs in human suffering.