Waiting in the Lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans: A Case Study of the Tempography of Hyper‐Marginalization. Issue 4 (1st October 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Harvey, Daina Cheyenne
• Is Part Of: Symbolic interaction. Volume 38:Issue 4(2015)
• Page Start: 539
• Page End: 556
• Publication Date: 2015-10-01
• Subjects: Symbolic interactionism -- Periodicals; Interactionnisme symbolique -- Périodiques; 302
• DOI: 10.1002/symb.185
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0195-6086

Abstract

<abstract abstract-type="main" id="symb185-abs-0001"> <title> <x xml:space="preserve">Abstract</x> </title> <p id="symb185-para-0001">In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina residents were forced to wait. Here the state played a familiar role where waiting is used to dominate or subordinate or further marginalize the poor. Residents of the Lower Ninth Ward, however, used waiting as a basis for interacting with other community members and as a way to structure social life. In doing so, they created a timescape of hyper‐marginalization where waiting became normative. In examining this timescape, I conduct a tempography of the neighborhood and distinguish between three forms of waiting as interaction.</p> </abstract>