The racial politics of neoliberal regulation in Post-Katrina Mississippi

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Description :
Based on extensive empirical research and drawing from literature on racialization, white privilege, urban neoliberalism, and disaster capitalism in Gulfport and Biloxi (Mississippi), this article shows that the “opportunity” the storm produced was to remake the landscape in ways that deepen the neoliberalization of governance in the region. The justi-fication of these governing and accumulation strategies hinged on the twin discourses of the region as a “blank slate” and the racial narrative of banal multiculturalism.” The relationship between the governing and accumulation strategies on the one hand, and the cultural politics of race are best understood through the lens of the often-overlooked regulation approach.


Type de document :
Article de périodique

Source :
Annals of the Association of American Geographers, issn : 0004-5608, 2014, vol. 104, n°. 4, p. 899-902, nombre de pages : 4, Références bibliographiques : 2 p.

Date :
2014

Editeur :
Pays édition : Etats-Unis, Washington, DC, Association of American Geographers