TY - JOUR
T1 - The Racial Politics of Neoliberal Regulation in Post-Katrina Mississippi
AU - Derickson, Kate Driscoll
PY - 2014/7
Y1 - 2014/7
N2 - After Hurricane Katrina devastated the landscape of much of coastal Mississippi, regional boosters frequently made the counterintuitive claim that the damage wrought by the storm actually represented an opportunity. Based on extensive empirical research and drawing from literature on racialization, white privilege, urban neoliberalism, and disaster capitalism, I show that the "opportunity" the storm produced was to remake the landscape in ways that deepen the neoliberalization of governance in the region. The justification of these governing and accumulation strategies hinged on the twin discourses of the region as a "blank slate" and the racial narrative of what Thomas (2011) calls "banal multiculturalism." The relationship between the governing and accumulation strategies on the one hand, and the cultural politics of race on the other, are best understood, I argue, through the lens of the often-overlooked regulation approach.
AB - After Hurricane Katrina devastated the landscape of much of coastal Mississippi, regional boosters frequently made the counterintuitive claim that the damage wrought by the storm actually represented an opportunity. Based on extensive empirical research and drawing from literature on racialization, white privilege, urban neoliberalism, and disaster capitalism, I show that the "opportunity" the storm produced was to remake the landscape in ways that deepen the neoliberalization of governance in the region. The justification of these governing and accumulation strategies hinged on the twin discourses of the region as a "blank slate" and the racial narrative of what Thomas (2011) calls "banal multiculturalism." The relationship between the governing and accumulation strategies on the one hand, and the cultural politics of race on the other, are best understood, I argue, through the lens of the often-overlooked regulation approach.
KW - Hurricane Katrina
KW - Regulation Approach
KW - banal multiculturalism
KW - racialization
KW - white privilege
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U2 - 10.1080/00045608.2014.912542
DO - 10.1080/00045608.2014.912542
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84903457292
SN - 0004-5608
VL - 104
SP - 889
EP - 902
JO - Annals of the Association of American Geographers
JF - Annals of the Association of American Geographers
IS - 4
ER -