"There isn't any such factor as a 'natural' disaster," writes Romain Huret in his advent to this multidisciplinary research of the occasions surrounding and the legacy of typhoon Katrina. even though nature produced Katrina's emerging waters and damaging winds, an enormous array of artifical components formed the scope of the storm's influence in addition to the neighborhood and nationwide reaction to it. In Hurricane Katrina in Transatlantic Perspective, American and ecu students strategy this notorious hurricane and its aftermath via various disciplines, from tune to geography to anthropology, making a nuanced figuring out of ways society reacts to and later recalls instances of disaster.

Richard Campanella and Romain Huret study the actual geographical and political combine that set the degree for Katrina's devastation, in particular one of the poorest populations of latest Orleans and the Gulf South. Jean Kempf, James Boyden, Andrew Diamond, and Thomas Jessen Adams deal with the ideological biases and racial stereotypes that infused neighborhood and nationwide remark within the days and weeks after the typhoon. ultimately, Bruce Raeburn, Sara Le Menestrel, Anne M. Lovell, and Randy J. Sparks discover the impression of this strong tropical occasion at the city's associations and cultural organizations.

Hurricane Katrina in Transatlantic Perspective deals a profound and leading edge selection of insights on essentially the most major environmental catastrophes in U.S. historical past, forcing us to ascertain the cultural actors that remodeled a usual catastrophe right into a humanitarian crisis.