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This handbook defines the contours of environmental sociology and
invites readers to push boundaries in their exploration of this
important subdiscipline. It offers a comprehensive overview of the
evolution of environmental sociology and its role in this era of
intensified national and global environmental crises. Its timely
frameworks and high-impact chapters will assist in navigating this
moment of great environmental inequality and uncertainty. The
handbook brings together an outstanding group of scholars who have
helped redefine the scope of environmental sociology and expand its
reach and impact. Their contributions speak to key themes of the
subdiscipline-inequality, justice, population, social movements,
and health. Chapter topics include environmental demography, food
systems, animals and the environment, climate change, disasters,
and much more. The emphasis on public environmental sociology and
the forward-thinking approach of this collection is what sets this
volume apart. This handbook can serve as an introduction for
students new to environmental sociology or as an insightful
treatment that current experts can use to further their own
research and publication. It will leave readers with a strong
understanding of environmental sociology and the motivation to
apply it to their work.
Hurricane Katrina forced the largest and most abrupt displacement
in U.S. history. About 1.5 million people evacuated from the Gulf
Coast preceding Katrina's landfall. New Orleans, a city of 500,000,
was nearly emptied of life after the hurricane and flooding.
Katrina survivors eventually scattered across all fifty states, and
tens of thousands still remain displaced. Some are desperate to
return to the Gulf Coast but cannot find the means. Others have
chosen to make their homes elsewhere. Still others found a way to
return home but were unable to stay due to the limited availability
of social services, educational opportunities, health care options,
and affordable housing. The contributors to Displaced have been
following the lives of Katrina evacuees since 2005. In this
illuminating book, they offer the first comprehensive analysis of
the experiences of the displaced. Drawing on research in thirteen
communities in seven states across the country, the contributors
describe the struggles that evacuees have faced in securing
life-sustaining resources and rebuilding their lives. They also
recount the impact that the displaced have had on communities that
initially welcomed them and then later experienced "Katrina
fatigue" as the ongoing needs of evacuees strained local resources.
Displaced reveals that Katrina took a particularly heavy toll on
households headed by low-income African American women who lost the
support provided by local networks of family and friends. It also
shows the resilience and resourcefulness of Katrina evacuees who
have built new networks and partnered with community organizations
and religious institutions to create new lives in the diaspora.
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.
Winner, Betty and Alfred McClung Lee Book Award, Association for
Humanist Sociology, 2016 Outstanding Scholarly Contribution Award
of the Section on Children and Youth, American Sociological
Association, 2016 Honorable Mention, Leo Goodman Award, Methodology
Section, American Sociological Association, 2016 When children
experience upheaval and trauma, adults often view them as either
vulnerable and helpless or as resilient and able to easily
“bounce back.” But the reality is far more complex for the
children and youth whose lives are suddenly upended by disaster.
How are children actually affected by catastrophic events and how
do they cope with the damage and disruption? Children of Katrina
offers one of the only long-term, multiyear studies of young people
following disaster. Sociologists Alice Fothergill and Lori Peek
spent seven years after Hurricane Katrina interviewing and
observing several hundred children and their family members,
friends, neighbors, teachers, and other caregivers. In this book,
they focus intimately on seven children between the ages of three
and eighteen, selected because they exemplify the varied
experiences of the larger group. They find that children followed
three different post-disaster trajectories—declining, finding
equilibrium, and fluctuating—as they tried to regain stability.
The children’s moving stories illuminate how a devastating
disaster affects individual health and well-being, family
situations, housing and neighborhood contexts, schooling, peer
relationships, and extracurricular activities. This work also
demonstrates how outcomes were often worse for children who were
vulnerable and living in crisis before the storm. Fothergill and
Peek clarify what kinds of assistance children need during
emergency response and recovery periods, as well as the individual,
familial, social, and structural factors that aid or hinder
children in getting that support.
This handbook defines the contours of environmental sociology and
invites readers to push boundaries in their exploration of this
important subdiscipline. It offers a comprehensive overview of the
evolution of environmental sociology and its role in this era of
intensified national and global environmental crises. Its timely
frameworks and high-impact chapters will assist in navigating this
moment of great environmental inequality and uncertainty. The
handbook brings together an outstanding group of scholars who have
helped redefine the scope of environmental sociology and expand its
reach and impact. Their contributions speak to key themes of the
subdiscipline-inequality, justice, population, social movements,
and health. Chapter topics include environmental demography, food
systems, animals and the environment, climate change, disasters,
and much more. The emphasis on public environmental sociology and
the forward-thinking approach of this collection is what sets this
volume apart. This handbook can serve as an introduction for
students new to environmental sociology or as an insightful
treatment that current experts can use to further their own
research and publication. It will leave readers with a strong
understanding of environmental sociology and the motivation to
apply it to their work.
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.
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