University Press of America
Pages: 332
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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)
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