FORUM ON PUBLIC SOCIOLOGY
SOCIAL AUTOPSY OF KATRINA
This third forum on public sociology took place on Monday, October 24 th ., 2005. It featured Eric Klinenberg, Associate Professor at New York University and author of sociological classic Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago ( University of Chicago , 2002) . Klinenberg's chronicle of the weeklong heat wave that struck Chicago in 1995 -- leaving over 700 people dead -- underlines the vulnerability of poor, black and elderly populations, the polarization of urban society, the militarization of social support, and the paralysis of governments that rule at a distance by orchestrating mass media and public relations. Disasters such as Chicago 's Heat Wave and Hurricane Katrina make spectacularly visible the breakdown of our urban milieu. Klinenberg opened the panel discussion with responses from four distinguished Berkeley faculty two sociologists, an anthropologist, and a geographer -- who will exhume the lessons of Katrina for social science today.
See http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/443213in.html for an interview with Klinenberg about Heat Wave and http://slate.msn.com/id/2125572/ for his brief assessment of the lessons for the disaster of Hurricane Katrina.
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