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FAITH IN THE NEOLIBERALISATION OF POST‐KATRINA NEW ORLEANS
Author(s) -
HACKWORTH JASON,
AKERS JOSHUA
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.766
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 1467-9663
pISSN - 0040-747X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9663.2010.00606.x
Subject(s) - faith , hurricane katrina , praxis , politics , political science , state (computer science) , government (linguistics) , face (sociological concept) , embodied cognition , event (particle physics) , public administration , political economy , environmental ethics , economic growth , development economics , sociology , natural disaster , law , geography , social science , linguistics , physics , theology , algorithm , quantum mechanics , artificial intelligence , meteorology , computer science , economics , philosophy
Though it has been over four years since Hurricane Katrina ravaged the physical and social geography of the gulf coast in the United States, a great deal of literature still continues to emanate from this event. Much of this literature focuses on how the event embodied a neoliberalised state reaction to the crisis – heavily reliant on charities while actively promoting claims about the government's weakness in the face of such events. Though this literature is useful, it has generally not covered the role of religious charities and their role in the putative neoliberalisation of New Orleans. This paper attempts to explore the role of religious NGOs in the reconstruction of New Orleans. The intent is twofold: first to improve our understanding of this important event; and second to improve our understanding of the complicated role that Faith‐based organisations have played within neoliberal politics and praxis in the United States.