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Black Beaches and Bayous

The BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Disaster

Edited by Lisa A. Eargle and Ashraf Esmail

Black Beaches and Bayous: The BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Disaster provides a multidisciplinary, international perspective on one of the major disaster events within the United States during the last ten years. Scholars from various disciplines including sociology, political science, ecology, psychology, and criminal justice investigate the different components and issues associated with this event. The contributors address topics such as the social and historical context of fossil fuel use, steps within the technological disaster process, and similarities and differences between this disaster and other technological disasters. They also discuss the social and psychological impacts on Gulf Coast residents, the transformation of natural ecological systems, changes in risk assessment, and media portrayals of the Obama administration and its response to this disaster.
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University Press of America
Pages: 332 • Trim: 6 x 9
978-0-7618-5978-9 • Paperback • November 2012 • $55.99 • (£43.00)
978-0-7618-5979-6 • eBook • November 2012 • $53.00 • (£41.00)
Subjects: Social Science / Disasters & Disaster Relief, Nature / Ecology, Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, Political Science / Public Policy / General
Lisa A. Eargle is a professor of sociology at Francis Marion University in Florence, South Carolina. Her research examines disasters and their impacts upon society and the environment.

Ashraf Esmail is an assistant professor in social sciences at Southern University at New Orleans. His research interests include urban, multicultural, and peace education; family; cultural diversity; political sociology; criminology; social problems; and deviance.
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Foreword by Dr. George L. Amedee
Preface by Dr. Lisa A. Eargle and Dr. Ashraf M. Esmail
Acknowledgments

Chapter One—The U.S. Oil Industry’s Safety Record and the Need For More Domestic Oil Production
Jude Clemente

Chapter Two—Applying Technological Disaster Process Models to the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Disaster
Lisa A. Eargle, Ashraf M. Esmail, Jas M. Sullivan, and Shyamal K. Das

Chapter Three—Beyond Petroleum in the Gulf of Mexico: The Characteristics and Consequences of Catastrophe
John Barnshaw and Lynn Letukas

Chapter Four—Corporate Catastrophes from UC Bhopal to BP Deepwater Horizon: Continuities in Causation, Corporate Negligence,
and Crisis Management
Tomás Mac Sheoin and Stephen Zavestoski

Chapter Five—The Effects of Oil Spills on Ecological Systems
Jeffrey R. Wozniak

Chapter Six—The Gulf Oil Spill, Ecological Debt, and Environmental Justice in Louisiana: Lessons From Sociology
Timothy J. Haney

Chapter Seven—A New Geography of Trouble
Daina Cheyenne Harvey

Chapter Eight—Ecological Identity and Disaster Recovery in an Oil-Stained Landscape: Current and Future Policy Implications
DeMond Shondell Miller, Jason David Rivera, and Brandon Eric Fleming

Chapter Nine—The Crude Awakening: Gulf Coast Residents Reflect on the BP Oil Spill and the 2010 Hurricane Season
Michelle Meyer Lueck and Lori Peek

Chapter Ten—The Ninety-Day Storm: Mississippi Community Response to the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
Jason S. Gordon and A. E. Luloff

Chapter Eleven—Disaster Vulnerability: The Differential Impact of the Deepwater Horizon Disaster Among Alabama’s Gulf Coast Residents
James Hawdon and John Ryan

Chapter Twelve—Disaster Phases, Structural Vulnerability and Crime
Kelly Frailing and Dee Wood Harper

Chapter Thirteen—Hazard, Outrage and Locality: An Analysis of Two Oil Spills
Amanda K. Goddard, Kenneth A. Lachlan and Patric R. Spence

Chapter Fourteen—Resisting Corporatism: Citizens Fight Back Against the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Disaster
Stan C. Weeber

Chapter Fifteen—Disaster Distrust: Risk Assessment, Citizen Science and Technolegal Debates in the BP Oil Spill
Sabrina McCormick

Chapter Sixteen—The President, the News, and the Oil Spill: An Examination of National and State Newspapers’ Framing of Obama and His Administration’s Response to the Deepwater Horizon Gulf Oil Spill
Jas M. Sullivan and Meghan S. Sanders

Editors
Contributors
The solid research presented in Black Beaches and Bayous not only helps us understand the dynamics of ‘na-tech’ disasters, but more importantly, it can help us prepare for what inevitably will be the next one.
— Gregory D. Squires, professor of sociology and public policy & public administration, George Washington University


When ecological disasters or catastrophes occur, like those of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and the Deepwater Horizon explosion, everyday people are left to question how their actions or inactions helped to facilitate the problem. In the case of the BP oil spill, the authors of this text have astutely drawn connections between the norms of oil use, the risks associated with technological progress, how disasters of this magnitude change the rules of everyday life, and how catastrophes of this nature have both regional and global ramifications. Clearly, social scientists and social actors have been in need of a book of this depth and breadth. This text provides members of society with tools to deconstruct socio-ecological events and to consider avenues for resistance and change—a way to have agency in the face of social institutions (like corporations) that they would otherwise feel defenseless against.
— Sandra E. Weissinger, assistant professor of sociology, Southern University at New Orleans


Black Beaches and Bayous

The BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Disaster

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Paperback
eBook
Summary
Summary
  • Black Beaches and Bayous: The BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Disaster provides a multidisciplinary, international perspective on one of the major disaster events within the United States during the last ten years. Scholars from various disciplines including sociology, political science, ecology, psychology, and criminal justice investigate the different components and issues associated with this event. The contributors address topics such as the social and historical context of fossil fuel use, steps within the technological disaster process, and similarities and differences between this disaster and other technological disasters. They also discuss the social and psychological impacts on Gulf Coast residents, the transformation of natural ecological systems, changes in risk assessment, and media portrayals of the Obama administration and its response to this disaster.
Details
Details
  • University Press of America
    Pages: 332 • Trim: 6 x 9
    978-0-7618-5978-9 • Paperback • November 2012 • $55.99 • (£43.00)
    978-0-7618-5979-6 • eBook • November 2012 • $53.00 • (£41.00)
    Subjects: Social Science / Disasters & Disaster Relief, Nature / Ecology, Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, Political Science / Public Policy / General
Author
Author
  • Lisa A. Eargle is a professor of sociology at Francis Marion University in Florence, South Carolina. Her research examines disasters and their impacts upon society and the environment.

    Ashraf Esmail is an assistant professor in social sciences at Southern University at New Orleans. His research interests include urban, multicultural, and peace education; family; cultural diversity; political sociology; criminology; social problems; and deviance.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
  • Figures
    Tables
    Foreword by Dr. George L. Amedee
    Preface by Dr. Lisa A. Eargle and Dr. Ashraf M. Esmail
    Acknowledgments

    Chapter One—The U.S. Oil Industry’s Safety Record and the Need For More Domestic Oil Production
    Jude Clemente

    Chapter Two—Applying Technological Disaster Process Models to the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Disaster
    Lisa A. Eargle, Ashraf M. Esmail, Jas M. Sullivan, and Shyamal K. Das

    Chapter Three—Beyond Petroleum in the Gulf of Mexico: The Characteristics and Consequences of Catastrophe
    John Barnshaw and Lynn Letukas

    Chapter Four—Corporate Catastrophes from UC Bhopal to BP Deepwater Horizon: Continuities in Causation, Corporate Negligence,
    and Crisis Management
    Tomás Mac Sheoin and Stephen Zavestoski

    Chapter Five—The Effects of Oil Spills on Ecological Systems
    Jeffrey R. Wozniak

    Chapter Six—The Gulf Oil Spill, Ecological Debt, and Environmental Justice in Louisiana: Lessons From Sociology
    Timothy J. Haney

    Chapter Seven—A New Geography of Trouble
    Daina Cheyenne Harvey

    Chapter Eight—Ecological Identity and Disaster Recovery in an Oil-Stained Landscape: Current and Future Policy Implications
    DeMond Shondell Miller, Jason David Rivera, and Brandon Eric Fleming

    Chapter Nine—The Crude Awakening: Gulf Coast Residents Reflect on the BP Oil Spill and the 2010 Hurricane Season
    Michelle Meyer Lueck and Lori Peek

    Chapter Ten—The Ninety-Day Storm: Mississippi Community Response to the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
    Jason S. Gordon and A. E. Luloff

    Chapter Eleven—Disaster Vulnerability: The Differential Impact of the Deepwater Horizon Disaster Among Alabama’s Gulf Coast Residents
    James Hawdon and John Ryan

    Chapter Twelve—Disaster Phases, Structural Vulnerability and Crime
    Kelly Frailing and Dee Wood Harper

    Chapter Thirteen—Hazard, Outrage and Locality: An Analysis of Two Oil Spills
    Amanda K. Goddard, Kenneth A. Lachlan and Patric R. Spence

    Chapter Fourteen—Resisting Corporatism: Citizens Fight Back Against the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Disaster
    Stan C. Weeber

    Chapter Fifteen—Disaster Distrust: Risk Assessment, Citizen Science and Technolegal Debates in the BP Oil Spill
    Sabrina McCormick

    Chapter Sixteen—The President, the News, and the Oil Spill: An Examination of National and State Newspapers’ Framing of Obama and His Administration’s Response to the Deepwater Horizon Gulf Oil Spill
    Jas M. Sullivan and Meghan S. Sanders

    Editors
    Contributors
Reviews
Reviews
  • The solid research presented in Black Beaches and Bayous not only helps us understand the dynamics of ‘na-tech’ disasters, but more importantly, it can help us prepare for what inevitably will be the next one.
    — Gregory D. Squires, professor of sociology and public policy & public administration, George Washington University


    When ecological disasters or catastrophes occur, like those of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and the Deepwater Horizon explosion, everyday people are left to question how their actions or inactions helped to facilitate the problem. In the case of the BP oil spill, the authors of this text have astutely drawn connections between the norms of oil use, the risks associated with technological progress, how disasters of this magnitude change the rules of everyday life, and how catastrophes of this nature have both regional and global ramifications. Clearly, social scientists and social actors have been in need of a book of this depth and breadth. This text provides members of society with tools to deconstruct socio-ecological events and to consider avenues for resistance and change—a way to have agency in the face of social institutions (like corporations) that they would otherwise feel defenseless against.
    — Sandra E. Weissinger, assistant professor of sociology, Southern University at New Orleans


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