Development Drowned and Reborn: The Blues and Bourbon Restorations in Post-Katrina New Orleans (Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation Ser.)

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Development Drowned and Reborn is a “Blues geography” of New Orleans, person who compels readers to go back to the history of the Black freedom struggle there to reckon with its unfinished business. Reading up to date policies of abandonment against the grain, Clyde Woods explores how Hurricane Katrina brought long-standing structures of domination into view. In so doing, Woods delineates the roots of neoliberalism within the region and a history of resistance.

Written in dialogue with social movements, this book offers tools for comprehending the racist dynamics of U.S. culture and economy. Following his landmark study, Development Arrested, Woods turns to organic intellectuals, Blues musicians, and poor and working people to instruct readers on this future-oriented history of struggle. Through this unique optic, Woods delineates a history, methodology, and epistemology to seize alternative visions of development.

Woods contributes to debates in regards to the history and geography of neoliberalism. The book suggests that the present center of attention on neoliberalism at national and global scales has led to a neglect of the regional scale. Specifically, it observes that theories of neoliberalism have tended to put out of your mind New Orleans as an epicenter where racial, class, gender, and regional hierarchies have persisted for centuries. Through this Blues geography, Woods excavates the struggle for a new society.

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