Disastrous accumulation

South Atlantic Quarterly

Volumn 106, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 768-787

  Smith, Neil ^a  

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EID: 44049088496     PISSN: 00382876     EISSN: 15278026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1215/00382876-2007-045     Document Type: Review

References (38)

1. Quoted in Maureen Dowd, "Neigh to Cronies," New York Times, September 10, 2005.
2. Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man (Boston: Beacon Press, 1964), 158.
3. Quoted in White House press release, "President, Lieutenant General Honore Discuss Hurricane Relief in Louisiana," September 12, 2005, www.whitehouse.gov/news/ releases/2005/09/20050912.html.
4. Neil Smith, Uneven Development: Nature, Capital, and the Production of Space (Oxford: Blackwell, 1991).
5. Phil O'Keefe, Ken Westgate, and Ben Wisner, "Taking the Naturalness out of Natural Disasters," Nature 260 (April 15, 1976): 566-67;
6. and Neil Smith, "There Is No Such Thing as a Natural Disaster," Social Science Research Council, http://understandingkatrina.ssrc .org/Smith/ (accessed February 13, 2007).
7. Joseph B.Treaster, "Judge Upholds Policyholders' Katrina Flood Claims," New York Times, November 29, 2006. As of this writing, the case is under appeal.
8. Jenny Anderson, "Hedge Funds Place Big Bets on Hurricane Season," New York Times, August 18, 2006.
9. Cindi Katz, "Whose Nature, Whose Culture? Private Productions of Space and the Preservation of Nature," in Bruce Braun and Noel Castree, eds., Remaking Reality: Nature at the Millennium (New York: Routledge, 1998), 46-63;
10. and Neil Smith, "Nature as Accumulation Strategy," in Corning to Terms with Nature, ed. Leo Panitch and Colin Leys (London: Merlin Press, 2006), 16-36.
11. Donna J. Haraway, Modest-Witness@Second-Millennium.FemaleMan©-Meets- Onco Mouse™: Feminism and Technoscience (New York: Routledge, 1997).
12. Gilbert White, Human Adjustment to Floods: Problems of the United States (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1945).
13. Craig Colten, An Unnatural Metropolis: Wresting New Orleans from Nature (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2005);
14. and R. W. Kates et al., "Reconstruction of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina: A Research Perspective," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 103 (2006): 14653-660. In the record monsoon rainfall (93 centimeters in one day) and deadly flooding that hit Mumbai on July 20, 2006, geographers and others cited the same combination of increased surface paving and the loss of wetlands for exacerbating the flooding.
15. David Brooks, "Katrina's Silver Lining," New York Times, September 8, 2005.
16. For the reference to Craigslist.org and the report on Florida investors, see David Streitfeld, "Speculators Rushing in as the Water Recedes," Los Angeles Times, September 15, 2005, http://news.yahoo.com/s/latimests/ speculatorsrushinginasthewaterrecedes.
17. For information about the hotel owner in New Orleans, see Gary Rivlin, "For Hotelier, Crisis Is Another Word for Opportunity," New York Times, September 22, 2006.
18. Kates et al., "Reconstruction of New Orleans," 14653.
19. Quotes are from Matthew Smith, "The Katrina Legacy," Designer/Builder 13.1 (May/June 2006):29.
20. See also Mike Davis, "Gentrifying Disaster: Ethnic Cleansing, GOP-Style," www.motherjones.com/commentary/columns/2005/10/gentrifying- disaster.html (accessed November 14, 2005);
21. "Katrina One Year After," Nation 283.8 (September 18, 2006): 3-4;
22. Adolph Reed, ed., Unnatural Disaster (New York: Nation Books, 2006);
23. and Gary Younge, "New Orleans Forsaken," Nation 283.8 (September 18, 2006): 17-20.
24. R. Bayon, "A Bull Market in...Woodpeckers?" The Milken Institute Review (March 2002): 30-39.
25. See www.investopedia.com/terms/w/weatherfuture.asp and http://hurricanefutures .miami.edu/ (accessed November 16, 2006).
26. "Cuba: A Model in Hurricane Risk Management," United Nations press release IHA/943, September 14, 2004, www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2004/ iha943.doc.htm;
27. and Conner Gorry, "UN Lauds Cuba as Model of Hurricane Preparedness," www.medicc.org/ medicc-review/1004/pages/top-story.html (accessed November 15, 2006).
28. Manuel Rodrigueza and Cristina Estrada, "Cuba Prepares Itself for the Worst," www .reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/JMAN-64SCVC? OpenDocument&rc=2& (accessed November 16, 2006).
29. Holly Sims and Kevin Vogelmann, "Popular Mobilization and Disaster Management in Cuba," Public Administration and Development 22 (2002): 389-400;
30. and Pedro Mas Bermejo, "Preparation and Response in Case of Natural Disasters: Cuban Programs and Experience," Journal of Public Health Policy 26 (2006): 13-21.
31. Gardner Harris, "Police in Suburbs Blocked Evacuees," New York Times, September 10, 2005.
32. The private mercenary corporation Blackwater, which enjoyed large contracts for its "private contractors" in Iraq and is owned and run by fundamentalist Christians, took it upon itself to police New Orleans. Blackwater's "forces beat most federal agencies to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005," reports Jeremy Scahill, "as hundreds of heavily armed Blackwater mercenaries - some fresh from deployment in Iraq - fanned out into the disaster zone. Within a week they were officially hired by the Department of Homeland Security" and within a year the company would have "raked in more than J70 million in federal hurricane-related contracts." Scahill, Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Anny (New York: Nation Books, 2007), xxiv-xxv.
33. "In the days after Hurricane Katrina, terror from crimes . . . gripped New Orleans. The fears changed troop deployments, delayed medical evacuations, drove police officers to quit, grounded helicopters. Edward P. Compass III, the police superintendent, said that tourists - the core of the city's economy - were being robbed and raped on streets that had slid into anarchy." A subsequent review of crime suggested that many of the "most alarming stories" were "figments of frightened imaginations, the product of chaotic circumstances." Crime may have been lower than normal, and no rapes were ever reported or documented. The police superintendent soon resigned. Jim Dwyer and Christopher Drew, "Fear Exceeded Crime's Reality in New Orleans," New York Times, September 29, 2005.
34. O'Keefe, Westgate, and Wisner, "Taking the Naturalness out of Natural Disasters," 566.
35. Joseph Schumpeter, Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy (London: Allen and Unwin, 1952), xviii.
36. Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (London: Faber and Faber, 1963).
37. "Katrina One Year After," 3.
38. Younge, "New Orleans Forsaken," 18.