Putting the Ninth Ward on the Map: Race, Place, and Transformation in Desire, New Orleans

In this article, we consider how long-term patterns of resistance to structural violence inform citizens' responses to displacement before and after Katrina. Drawing on Abdou Maliq Simone's (2004) conceptualization of people as infrastructure, we recenter the discussion about the rebuildin...

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Published inAmerican anthropologist Vol. 108; no. 4; pp. 744 - 764
Main Authors Rachel Breunlin, Regis, Helen A.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford, UK American Anthropological Association 01.12.2006
Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Subjects
African American culture
Architecture
Cities
Citizens
Communities
Concept formation
Desire
Disasters
Displaced persons
Electronic records
Housing
Hurricane Katrina
Hurricanes
In Focus: The Impact of the Hurricanes of 2005 on New Orleans and the Gulf Coast of the United States
Katrina
Louisiana
Natural disasters
Neighborhoods
New orleans
Place
Public housing
Public infrastructure
Race
Redevelopment
Renovation & restoration
Residents
Resistance
Social clubs
U.S.A
Urban areas
Urban planning
Urban renewal
urban restructuring
Ward, Martha (1941- )
Louisiana
New York
United States > US
China
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Summary:In this article, we consider how long-term patterns of resistance to structural violence inform citizens' responses to displacement before and after Katrina. Drawing on Abdou Maliq Simone's (2004) conceptualization of people as infrastructure, we recenter the discussion about the rebuilding of New Orleans around displaced residents, taking the place-making practices of members of a social club as a lens through which to examine the predicament of the city as a whole. Members have been generating alternative ways of thinking about and dwelling together in a restructuring city. Their perspectives are articulated through in-depth interviews, focus groups, and the embodied practices of club members and their followers as they make claims to the city through massive, participatory street processions known as second lines. These distinctive ways of thinking and being in the city-the subaltern mainstream of the second-line tradition-are now being deployed by exiled New Orleanians reconsidering their relationship to home.
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ISSN:0002-7294
1548-1433
DOI:10.1525/aa.2006.108.4.744