Renew Orleans? Globalized Development and Worker Resistance after Katrina
Date and Time
Nov 20, 2018 6:00 pm
Location
14th & V
2021 14th St NW, Washington, District of Columbia, 20009
Nov 20, 2018 6:00 pm
14th & V
Join DC native and Georgetown Day School grad, Aaron Schneider of the University of Denver, whose analysis of New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina offers powerful insight into the political economy of urban development. The experience of rebuilding after disaster highlights economic and political transition, as the hurricane upset an existing stalemate among rival factions. Renew Orleans? shows how globally-oriented elites captured local institutions and imposed an exclusionary agenda of dual development, producing wealth for the few while distributing poverty and exclusion to the many on the basis of race, gender, and ethnicity. The book explores the dynamics of racial politics and working-class resistance in the face of gentrified models of development, a struggle that characterizes all major cities in the US.
