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Disaster, Time, and Dialogue: A Couple Lessons from Hurricane Katrina
Author(s) -
KrollSmith Steve,
Madsen Rachel S.
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
sociological inquiry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.446
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1475-682X
pISSN - 0038-0245
DOI - 10.1111/soin.12044
Subject(s) - hurricane katrina , event (particle physics) , sociology , composition (language) , off the shelf , natural disaster , history , media studies , computer science , meteorology , art , geography , literature , physics , software engineering , quantum mechanics
There is much to learn about ourselves and the worlds we fashion “when all hell breaks loose” (W. Lloyd Warner 1947:1). This brief paper is about The Katrina Bookshelf, specifically about a couple of the contributions several of the forthcoming books on The Shelf will make to the social study of disaster. It is both a collective and an individual achievement. Imagine The Katrina Bookshelf as a composition and each book on The Shelf a movement, a part of the composition that is more or less complete in and of itself. Any one of the books could be taken from The Shelf and read alone, independent of the others. Each has its own voice and reaches its own resolution. But examined together, The Shelf reveals the phenomenal human complexity that is Hurricane Katrina.