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Overview"In the years since Hurricane Katrina, the modern-day bohemians of New Orleans have found themselves forced to the edges of poverty by the new tourist economy. Modeling his work after George Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London, the sociologist and ethnographer Peter J. Marina explores this unfamiliar side of the gentrifying ""new"" New Orleans. In 1920s Paris, Orwell witnessed an influx of locals and outsiders seeking authenticity while struggling to live with bourgeois society. Marina finds a similar ambivalence in New Orleans: a tourism-dependent city whose commerce caters largely to well-heeled natives and upper-class travelers, where many creative locals and wanderers have remained outsiders, willingly or otherwise. Marina does not merely interview these spirited urban misfits-he lives among them. Down and Out in New Orleans follows their journeys, depicting the lives of those on the social fringes of a resilient city. Marina finds work as a bartender, street mime, and poet. Along the way, he visits homeless shelters, squats in abandoned buildings, attends rituals in cemeteries, and befriends writers, musicians, occultists, and artists as they look for creative solutions to the contradictory demands of late capitalism. Marina does for New Orleans what Orwell did for Paris a century earlier, providing a rigorous, unrelenting, and original glimpse into the subcultures of a city in rapid change." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Peter J. MarinaPublisher: Columbia University Press Imprint: Columbia University Press Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9780231178525ISBN 10: 0231178522 Pages: 336 Publication Date: 05 September 2017 Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Professional & Vocational , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Language: English Table of ContentsForeword, by David Brotherton Acknowledgments 1. New Orleans: Romancing the City of Sin and Resistance 2. The Hard and Soft City: A Portrait of New Orleans Neighborhoods and Their Characters 3. Living Down and Out in New Orleans 4. Buskers, Hustlers, and Street Performers 5. The Informal Nocturnal Economy of Frenchmen Street 6. City Squatting and Urban Camping 7. Occultists and Satanists 8. Gentrification and Violent Cultural Resistance 9. Hipster Wonderland 10. Brass Bands and Second Lines Conclusion: The Fogs of New Orleans and the Future of the Crescent City Notes IndexReviewsMarina takes readers on a tour of the New Orleans you won't see on postcards or in tourism commercials. His New Orleans is a lived-in, off-the-beaten-path place . . . occupied by a mix of dropouts, dreamers, and those who simply choose to march to the beat of their own drum. The result is a work that will equally serve sociologists, anthropologists and those who are simply interested in seeing another side of one of the country's most fascinating cities.--Mike Scott The Times-Picayune Peter J. Marina provides an outstanding introduction to the sociology of transgression through his fascinating portrayal of life on the edge in post-Katrina New Orleans. His sociological insight, ethnographic ability, and love of the city uniquely position him to write about the sociology of living down and out in the Crescent City.--David Gladstone, University of New Orleans Author InformationPeter J. Marina is associate professor of sociology at University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. He is the author of Chasing Religion in the Caribbean: Ethnographic Journeys from Antigua to Trinidad (2016). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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