'You fix my community, you have fixed my life': The disruption and rebuilding of ontological security in New Orleans

Disasters

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 143-159

  Hawkins, Robert L ^a   Maurer, Katherine ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Community; Disaster; Hurricane Katrina; Ontological security; Social support; Trauma

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; DISASTER RELIEF; HURRICANE KATRINA 2005; NEIGHBORHOOD; PSYCHOLOGY;

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY CARE; FLOODING; HOUSING; HUMAN; HURRICANE; POVERTY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; UNITED STATES; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

COMMUNITY NETWORKS; CYCLONIC STORMS; FLOODS; HOUSING; HUMANS; NEW ORLEANS; POVERTY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS;

LOUISIANA; NEW ORLEANS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 78650079963     PISSN: 03613666     EISSN: 14677717     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7717.2010.01197.x     Document Type: Article

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