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Cruger, Katherine Marie.

Green rebirth: Rhetoric, identity, and environmental justice in the redevelopment of Greensburg, Kansas and the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, Louisiana.

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Title/Author:	Green rebirth: Rhetoric, identity, and environmental justice in the redevelopment of Greensburg, Kansas and the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, Louisiana.
Author:	Cruger, Katherine Marie.
Description:	259 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 72-11, Section: A, page: .
Notes:	Advisers: Lisa B. Keranen; John Ackerman.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International72-11A.
Subject:	Area Planning and Development.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3468364
ISBN:	9781124823164

Green rebirth: Rhetoric, identity, and environmental justice in the redevelopment of Greensburg, Kansas and the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, Louisiana.
Cruger, Katherine Marie.

Green rebirth: Rhetoric, identity, and environmental justice in the redevelopment of Greensburg, Kansas and the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, Louisiana. - 259 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 72-11, Section: A, page: .

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Colorado at Boulder, 2011.

This dissertation offers a comparative study of the symbolic and material rhetoric of rebuilding in two American communities felled by natural disaster. It employs ethnographically-informed rhetorical criticism in order to assess how the communities of Greensburg, Kansas, and the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, Louisiana, engage in rhetorics of sustainable rebirth. It argues that while the symbolic and material rhetorics of Greensburg and Katrina employ similar populist discourse and the soaring topos of national resilience, Greensburg succeeds where the Lower Ninth Ward fails in rebuilding swiftly post-disaster because residents and stakeholders present a united front to government officials and investors and benefit from normalized portrayals of Greensburg's deserving and brave (white) citizenry. In contrast, the Lower Ninth Ward faces conflicting and often overtly discriminatory media coverage of its residents and multiple, conflicting visions for redevelopment, some of which position residents as outside Others in need of relocation. Despite this turmoil and social vulnerability, local resident activists tirelessly work with outside organizations to map a sustainable future for the Ninth Ward.

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Area Planning and Development.

Green rebirth: Rhetoric, identity, and environmental justice in the redevelopment of Greensburg, Kansas and the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, Louisiana.
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