"Markets of Sorrow, Labors of Faith" is an ethnographic account of
long-term recovery in post-Katrina New Orleans. It is also a
sobering exploration of the privatization of vital social services
under market-driven governance. In the wake of Hurricane Katrina,
public agencies subcontracted disaster relief to private companies
that turned the humanitarian work of recovery into lucrative
business. These enterprises profited from the very suffering that
they failed to ameliorate, producing a second-order disaster that
exacerbated inequalities based on race and class and leaving
residents to rebuild almost entirely on their own.
Filled with the often desperate voices of residents who returned
to New Orleans, "Markets of Sorrow," "Labors of Faith" describes
the human toll of disaster capitalism and the affect economy it has
produced. While for-profit companies delayed delivery of federal
resources to returning residents, faith-based and nonprofit groups
stepped in to rebuild, compelled by the moral pull of charity and
the emotional rewards of volunteer labor. Adams traces the success
of charity efforts, even while noting an irony of neoliberalism,
which encourages the very same for-profit companies to exploit
these charities as another market opportunity. In so doing, the
companies profit not once but twice on disaster.
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