The "Katrina Effect"

On August 29th 2005, the headwaters of Hurricane Katrina''s storm-surge arrived at New Orleans, the levees broke and the city was inundated. Perhaps no other disaster of the 21st century has so captured the global media''s attention and featured in the ''imagination of disaster'' like Katrina. The Katrina Effect charts the important ethical territory that underscores thinking about disaster ...