The Continuing Storm: Learning from Katrina (The Katrina Bookshelf)

Erikson, Kai; Peek, Lori

ISBN 10: 147732433X / ISBN 13: 9781477324332

Published by University of Texas Press, 2022

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The book is in good condition with all pages and cover intact, including the dust jacket if originally issued. The spine may show light wear. Pages may contain some notes or highlighting, and there might be a "From the library of" label. Boxed set packaging, shrink wrap, or included media like CDs may be missing.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Continuing Storm: Learning from Katrina (The Katrina Bookshelf)
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 147732433X
• ISBN 13: 9781477324332
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: good

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Synopsis

2023 Finalist, Colorado Book Awards, History/Biography Category

This final volume in the award-winning Katrina Bookshelf series reflects upon the lessons of Hurricane Katrina and what they reveal about our society and current cultural climate.

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 The Continuing Storm 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.

About the Author

Kai Erikson (1931–2025) was the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor Emeritus of Sociology and American Studies at Yale University. He is the author of Wayward Puritans, Everything in Its Path, A New Species of Trouble, and The Sociologist’s Eye.

Lori Peek is professor of sociology and director of the Natural Hazards Center at the University of Colorado Boulder. She is the author of Behind the Backlash, coauthor of Children of Katrina, and coeditor of Displaced and the Handbook of Environmental Sociology.