Date of Award
4-22-2008
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
Anthropology
First Advisor
Kathryn A. Kozaitis - Chair
Second Advisor
Emmanuela Guano
Third Advisor
Cassandra White
Abstract
This thesis explores the experiences and practices of disaster relief volunteers. This thesis is based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted over a period of fifty-three days in the summer of 2007 at the post-hurricane Katrina Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, Louisiana. Through innovative practices and a commitment to the principle of “solidarity not charity” volunteers produce not just material aid, but an ideology of social justice. This thesis is also an exercise in engaged scholarship in that the author directly participated in the disaster relief effort as a volunteer.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.57709/1059175
Recommended Citation
Huff, Patrick W., "Movement Against Disaster: An Ethnography of Post-Katrina Volunteerism in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, Louisiana." Thesis, Georgia State University, 2008.
doi: https://doi.org/10.57709/1059175