Spaces of uneventful disaster tracking emergency housing and domestic chemical exposures from New Orleans to national crises
<p>In this thesis, I examine the politics, poetics, and logics of uneventful human harm in the United States by tracking the life and afterlife of a chemically contaminated emergency housing unit. In 2005, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) deployed 120,000 trailers to the US Gulf...
Main Author: | Shapiro, N |
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Other Authors: | Hsu, E |
Format: | Thesis |
Language: | English |
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2014
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