“Land! Hold On! Just Hold On!”

2019 ◽  
pp. 50-65
Author(s):  
Gina Caison
Keyword(s):  
Hurricane Katrina ◽  
Oil Spill ◽  
Land Claim ◽  
Bp Oil Spill ◽  
Single Thread ◽  
Ecological Disaster ◽  
Indigenous Land

This essay interrogates William Faulkner’s “Old Man” section of The Wild Palms (1939), with its depiction of the 1927 flood, alongside Houma filmmaker Monique Verdin’s documentary My Louisiana Love (2012), which recounts Hurricane Katrina and the BP oil spill, to examine the ways that the two texts present ecological disaster in the Native South. In many cases, Faulkner takes liberties and makes mistakes in his use of Native history, but to catalogue his successes or failures means to remain fixed upon Faulkner’s tapestry alone, imagining that the “Native” runs through his fictional Yoknapatawpha like a single thread. Rather, this essay examines the ways in which Faulkner’s work forms part of a larger fabric of a region still deeply imbued with the concerns of indigenous land claim and how contemporary Indigenous artists represent this landscape.

“Before the Storm”: Hurricane Katrina, the BP Oil Spill, and the Challenges to Racial Hierarchies in Rural Louisiana

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-85
Author(s):  
Seumas Bates
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Hurricane Katrina ◽  
Oil Spill ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Bp Oil Spill ◽  
White Males ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
American Society ◽  
Feminist Movements ◽  
Racial Hierarchies

By conceptualizing the recovery from Hurricane Katrina and the Deepwater Horizon/BP oil spill as forming part of ongoing processes of “becoming” and the everyday, this article explores how the relative power of a historically privileged group of White males in rural Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, faced significant challenge. First, through the breakdown of informal racial segregation in local social institutions, and through the newly ubiquitous nature of mobile homes threatening their rejection of “trailer trash” culture. Second, however, this impact must be understood within ongoing changes across wider American society, where a locally valorized ideal of normative 1950s culture was seen to be in conflict with the civil rights and feminist movements of the late twentieth century. This imagined cultural hegemony was therefore in serious decline long before these catastrophes, yet has now been confined to the time “before the Storm.”

What Lies Beneath: the BP Oil Spill and the Need for New Response Models

2015 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 587-596 ◽  
Author(s):  
Priscilla D. Allen ◽  
Christopher F. D’Elia
Keyword(s):  
Oil Spill ◽  
Response Models ◽  
Bp Oil Spill

Presidential Confidence in Crisis: Blame, Media, and the BP Oil Spill

2015 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 467-489 ◽  
Author(s):  
Travis M. Johnston ◽  
Stephen N. Goggin
Keyword(s):  
Oil Spill ◽  
Bp Oil Spill

scholarly journals Lessons from the Twin Mega-Crises: The Financial Meltdown and the BP Oil Spill

2010 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hershey H. Friedman ◽  
Linda W. Friedman
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Oil Spill ◽  
Government Regulation ◽  
Conflicts Of Interest ◽  
Business And Society ◽  
Bp Oil Spill ◽  
Twin Crises ◽  
Excessive Risk

This paper explores the synchronicity of two mega-crises we are now facing: The BP oil spill and the repercussions of the 2008 financial meltdown. It examines some key common threads in both of these crises. The overarching message is that firms must maintain a culture of social responsibility, must behave in an ethical manner, and must do everything possible to avoid societal harm. The three key lessons to be learned from the twin crises are to consider and mange risk in decision making; minimize conflicts of interest in the hope that executives will then not engage in actions that involve excessive risk to stakeholders; and that government regulation can be beneficial, rather than harmful to business and society – as long as it does not stifle innovation and growth.

Mining Organizations’ Networks

2011 ◽  
pp. 205-230 ◽  
Author(s):  
James A. Danowski
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Oil Spill ◽  
Organizational Hierarchy ◽  
Art And Design ◽  
Bp Oil Spill ◽  
Network Mining ◽  
Social Network Mining ◽  
Corporate Innovation ◽  
Semantic Associations ◽  
Over Time

This chapter presents six examples of organization-related social network mining: 1) interorganizational and sentiment networks in the Deepwater BP Oil Spill events, 2) intraorganizational interdepartmental networks in the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), 3) who-to-whom email networks across the organizational hierarchy the Ford Motor Company’s automotive engineering innovation: “Sync® w/ MyFord Touch”, 4) networks of selected individuals who left that organization, 5) semantic associations across email for a corporate innovation in that organization, and 6) assessment of sentiment across its email for innovations over time. These examples are discussed in terms of motivations, methods, implications, and applications.

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