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Space and Culture, Vol. 9, No. 1, 68-70 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/1206331205283737
© 2006 SAGE Publications

The Position of the Theorist in the Lower Ninth Ward

C. Tabor Fisher

Le Moyne College

A too-easy equation of race and poverty with the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans can spatially contain our responses to the social inequities that contributed to the disaster wrought by Hurricane Katrina. This containment reproduces abstract space and inhibits movements for social change.

Key Words: New Orleans • Hurricane Katrina • social production of space • Lower Ninth Ward • Lugones, María


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