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AFTER THE DELUGE: Publics and Publicity in Katrina's Wake

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 August 2006

Michael C. Dawson
Michael C. Dawson
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Department of Political Science, University of Chicago
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I want to start with a story from the period of chaos that followed Hurricane Katrina. I am going to present some data as an entry into a brief discussion of how different publics evaluated the disaster, and the implications for how we think about civil society in the United States.

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EDITORIAL AFTERWORD
Information
Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race , Volume 3 , Issue 1 , March 2006 , pp. 239 - 249
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© 2006 W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research

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Footnotes

This is a modified version of a talk presented at the Eight Annual Globalization Conference, “The Rights of Others,” of the Workshop on the Sociology and Cultures of Globalization at the University of Chicago, April 21–22, 2006. The author wishes to thank Saskia Sassen for the invitation to speak at the conference and Gregory Liegel and the other student organizers for an outstanding job working with busy faculty. I wish to thank Lisa Wedeen and Patchen Markell for very close readings of drafts of this text. Alice Furumoto also mightily contributed to ensuring that this work was completed. Part of this presentation draws on the joint work of Michael Hanchard and myself. Several years of conversation with him about these and related topics have enriched me and this work in ways too numerous to count.

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