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Racialization and Rescaling: Post‐Katrina Rebuilding and the Louisiana R oad H ome Program
Author(s) -
Gotham Kevin Fox
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
international journal of urban and regional research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.456
H-Index - 114
eISSN - 1468-2427
pISSN - 0309-1317
DOI - 10.1111/1468-2427.12141
Subject(s) - racialization , government (linguistics) , space (punctuation) , sociology , geography , computer science , gender studies , linguistics , philosophy , race (biology) , operating system
This article examines the interlocking nature of racialization and rescaling in post‐ K atrina N ew O rleans, focusing specifically on the implementation of the L ouisiana R oad H ome program, the largest housing recovery program in US history. Based on interviews and long‐term ethnographic fieldwork, I conceptualize the R oad H ome program as a racialized spatial strategy to revalorize disaster‐devastated spaces and enhance the exchangeability of damaged property. I trace the logic of rescaling in post‐ K atrina N ew O rleans and reveal the ways in which state policies to accelerate the turnover time of flood‐damaged housing reflect and reinforce the racialization of space. N ew O rleans stands as a valuable laboratory for the study of government intervention under conditions of widespread upscaling, downscaling and outscaling processes, pushing trends found elsewhere to their limits while revealing the negative consequences of rescaling for local institutions and residents. The article illustrates the localized dynamics of rescaling in times of crisis and offers a novel processual account of the drivers and consequences of rescaling processes in a disaster‐impacted territory.

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