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Nola Aftershock

The Consequences of Disaster Capitalism

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Part of the book series: Educational Futures ((EDUFUT,volume 63))

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Naomi Klein (2007) opens The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism with a discussion of the Bush administration’s treatment of New Orleans. She states that many residents, scattered from Hurricane Katrina, discovered that their public housing, hospitals, and schools would never reopen. The Bush administration used the storm as an excuse for a particular form of crisis management, premised on the introduction of new market mechanisms to replace older public sector organization structures.

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John, E.P.S. (2015). Nola Aftershock. In: Mirón, L., Beabout, B.R., Boselovic, J.L. (eds) Only in New Orleans. Educational Futures, vol 63. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-100-7_13

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