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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"Post-Katrina New Orleans"”.
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Growing Communities: Urban Agriculture In Post-Katrina New Orleans
The city of New Orleans is known for many things, from Mardi Gras and jazz music, to the rich union of French, Spanish, southern and Creole cultures. Recently, urban agriculture has come to the city as part of the rebuilding process following Hurricane Katrina. Many groups have sprung up across the …
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God Talk: Shifting Religious Rhetoric in Post-Katrina New Orleans
… device are applicable in a modern case study of post-Katrina New Orleans concerning the way words in the New Orleans community have taken on new meanings among both secular and religious institutions. Likewise, this case study will raise serious questions about why the language changed and what …
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Shaping an Inclusionary Zoning Ordinance for Post-Katrina New Orleans
… shortage in affordable housing since hurricane Katrina and compares the model ordinance, passed in 2007, to ordinances in San Francisco, Denver, and San Diego. These large city ordinances offer an assessment of older versus newer ordinances as well as strict versus lenient provisions within a …
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Resilience and Resistance: Public Narratives from Post-Katrina New Orleans
… and resistance are applied by public editors in post-Katrina New Orleans in hopes of reordering the city's ruptured narrative. Using qualitative methods and grounded theory, the textual analysis of local newspaper editorials and letters to the editor, collected from the six month period between …
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Spatial Mismatch for Low-Wage Workers in post-Katrina New Orleans
… patterns of people/subgroups and jobs in the postwar American urban environment. Specifically, "Housing Segregation" posits that housing-market discrimination is at the root of increased unemployment among inner-city, nonwhite workers; concurrently, the pace and volume of decentralization (of …
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Opposing Viewpoints for Addressing Public Housing in Post-Katrina New Orleans
… and never reopen four public housing projects in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina was a highly contentious issue for people throughout the city and even the nation. This thesis investigates the tensions between those who supported and opposed public housing demolition by highlighting the …
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Cause Lawyers and Social Movements: Perspectives from Post-Katrina New Orleans
… lawyers involved in efforts for social change in post-Katrina New Orleans to develop a richer understanding of their roles within social movements and how they conceive of and negotiate the core tensions in their work. I investigate the lawyers' roles within social movements situated in legal, …
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Feet don't fail me now: brass bands in post-Katrina New Orleans
… study is to examine brass bands in post-Katrina New Orleans. Told primarily in the words of the musicians themselves, this study analyzes the intersection of the city's recovery efforts and the complex web of formal and informal sociocultural relationships that exist in the brass …
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Growing Support: Localism, Nonprofits, and Food Access in Post-Katrina New Orleans
… neighborhoods, has been an ongoing challenge in New Orleans. The damages inflicted by Hurricane Katrina and subsequent citywide flooding on the local food system reduced the numerical count of operational full-service supermarkets and grocery stores throughout the city. The result has been a …
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Race, Class, Risk and Trust: Risk Communication in Post-Katrina New Orleans
… about dangerous environmental events in post-Katrina New Orleans, and the influence that race and class have on that process. It seeks to determine the assessment of New Orleans residents of the various possible sources of risk information that are available to them, and how race and …
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Restoring performance : personal story, place, and memory in post-Katrina New Orleans
… the devastation of 80 percent of the city of New Orleans and the prolonged period of trauma due to levee failure and lack of effective emergency response in 2005, New Orleanian performing artists independently and along with national artists to create post-K performances as acts of …
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Re-visioning Katrina: Exploring Gender in pre- and post-Katrina New Orleans
I argue that to understand the gender dynamics of New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina, and the storm's aftermath, one must interrogate the cultural conflation of the black female body and the city's legacy to explore what it means and how it situates real black women in social, cultural, and physical …
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Latino Migrant Labor Strife and Solidarity in Post-Katrina New Orleans, 2005-2007
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, lapses in federal policy-making and a lack of state level enforcement paved the way for employer exploitation of predominantly Latino migrant workers, transforming working-class Latino newcomers into the newest class of storm victims in post-Katrina New …
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Making groceries : food, neighborhood markets, and neighborhood recovery in post-Katrina New Orleans
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, several neighborhoods in New Orleans created neighborhood markets. Given the fact that only one such market existed prior to the storm, this was surprising. This thesis hypothesizes that neighborhood markets are responding in part to the changing and uneven …
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A Tale of Two Silos: Collaborative School Facility Planning in Post-Katrina New Orleans
… urban planning and school facility planning in New Orleans, Louisiana, where CSP is particularly important in light of rebuilding efforts since Hurricane Katrina. The researcher examines the extent, challenges, and opportunities for CSP in New Orleans. Based on interviews and recent planning …
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When did these buildings become historic? : preservation meets public housing in post-Katrina New Orleans
… on public housing revitalization efforts in post-Katrina New Orleans. Through this case study, I analyze the possibilities for a more expansive and social justice-oriented approach to historic preservation at complicated sites through broadening the concept of significance, which determines …
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Returning to post-Katrina New Orleans: Exploring the processes, barriers, and decision-making of African Americans
<p>This qualitative case study explores the post-Katrina experiences of African Americans in Houston and in New Orleans. When the levees failed, residents from New Orleans were scattered across the country. Houston housed the largest population of displaced low-income African Americans from New …
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The Capacity of the Black Protestant Church to Provide Social Ministry in Post-Katrina New Orleans
… which investigates the effects of Hurricane Katrina upon the capacity of African American Protestant churches in New Orleans to provide spiritual and social ministry to the city's underprivileged. More than three years after Hurricane Katrina unleashed its fury upon the city, fifty per cent …
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The post-disaster shrinking city : vacant land types, patterns, and strategies in post-Katrina New Orleans
There were approximately 17,000 vacant lots in New Orleans in 2012, amounting to over 11 percent of total parcels in the city. Many of these lots have become vacant since Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast in 2005, but many were already empty. The population in parts of the older core of the city …
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“They probably got us all on the news”: Personal Narratives and Public Trauma in Post-Katrina New Orleans
… stories and images of suffering during Hurricane Katrina saturated public discourse in 2005, the fundamental failures of communication that characterize this catastrophe remain undertheorized—especially the ease with which some stories have been accepted and others ignored. My dissertation brings …
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