Down and Out in New Orleans: Transgressive Living in the Informal Economy
Peter J. Marina, "Down and Out in New Orleans: Transgressive Living in the Informal Economy "
English | ISBN: 0231178522 | 2017 | 336 pages | EPUB | 43 MB
English | ISBN: 0231178522 | 2017 | 336 pages | EPUB | 43 MB
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.
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