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Race, Environment, and Crisis : Hurricane Camille and the Politics of Southern Segregation
2022
In August 1969 Hurricane Camille hit the Mississippi coast. We argue that the disaster caused by the Hurricane was an outcome of the entanglement between human and non-human agents. As a non-human agent, Hurricane Camille thrust the prevailing socio-economic situation in the segregationist South into the spotlight, with all its political and cultural ramifications – much to the annoyance of the local political elite that had long sought to isolate southern politics from civil rights and the desegregation agenda. Consequently, it (re)invigorated and furnished the civil rights movement and the politics defining that era with new arguments and approaches that would have been impossible to dev…
Hurrikaanien pitkät jäljet
2022
Suomalainen media keskittyy hurrikaaneja koskevassa uutisoinnissaan listaamaan kulloinkin Yhdysvalloissa maihin iskeneen hurrikaanin kuolonuhrien ja taloudellisten tuhojen määrää. Tällainen uutisointi voi pahimmillaan irrottaa hurrikaanit niiden laajemmista yhteiskunnallisista vaikutuksista. nonPeerReviewed