"THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE NEW ORLEANS": SENSE OF PLACE AND COMMUNITY RECOVERY IN THE NINTH WARD AFTER HURRICANE KATRINA
"THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE NEW ORLEANS": SENSE OF PLACE AND COMMUNITY RECOVERY IN THE NINTH WARD AFTER HURRICANE KATRINA
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1467-9906.2009.00479.x
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发表时间：
2009-01-01
影响因子：
2.1
通讯作者：
Storr, Virgil Henry
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作者：
Chamlee-wright, Emily;Storr, Virgil Henry
本研究对低收入和中等收入社区的地方依恋、身份认同和依赖强度的研究文献有所贡献。它还涉及了关于地方感在社区参与中的作用以及自然灾害可能导致的地方依恋、身份和依赖的破坏的文献。通过对飓风过后返回新奥尔良的居民和疏散到休斯顿但没有返回的前新奥尔良人的访谈数据，本文调查了新奥尔良第九区居民在他们对卡特里娜飓风前后经历的叙述中所识别的“地方感”。这里考虑的数据表明，回归的居民认为，总的来说，新奥尔良（尤其是他们的第九区社区）拥有一系列独特的特征，这些特征加在一起，在其他地方是找不到或复制不了的。虽然地方感是促使居民回归的重要因素，但数据也表明，如果要充分发挥这一社会资源的潜力，还必须有互补因素。
This study contributes to the literature on the strength of place attachment, identity, and dependence in low- and moderate-income neighborhoods. It also engages the literature concerning the role of sense of place in community engagement and the disruption in place attachment, identity, and dependence that natural disasters can cause. By drawing on interview data collected from residents who returned to New Orleans after the storm and from former New Orleanians who evacuated to Houston but did not return, this article investigates the "sense of place" that residents in Ninth Ward New Orleans neighborhoods identify in their narratives about their pre- and post-Hurricane Katrina experiences. The data considered here suggest that returning residents believe that New Orleans in general (and their Ninth Ward neighborhoods in particular) possess a unique bundle of characteristics that, when taken together, cannot be found or replicated elsewhere. While sense of place is an important motivator for returning residents, the data also suggest that complementary factors must be in place if the full potential of this social resource is to be realized.