Resilience and Resistance: Public Narratives from Post-Katrina New Orleans

Narratives of resilience 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 August 29, 2005 and February 28, 2006, have revealed categories of hope and struggle in acts of collective reaffirmation; of civility and leadership in expectations of personal transformation; and of self-reliance and civic engagement in acts of resistance. Discussion will focus on how editorialists work to create public narratives that will unite their audience and maintain social order during post-disaster reconstruction.

Name thesis:degree_name

M.S.

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

School of Urban and Regional Studies

Year

2006

Author dc:creator

• Price, Heather

Contributors dc:contributor

• Ward, Martha
• Ehrenreich, Jeffrey
• Gladstone, David

Repository record dc:identifier

https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/411

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholarworks.uno.edu:td-1432