Waiting for Gadeaux: A Case Study of the Tempography of Hyper-Marginalization in New Orleans

• In Event: 545 - Section on Sociology of Culture Roundtable Session.
  In Refereed Roundtable: Table 16. Migration and Identity

Abstract

In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina residents were forced to wait. Here the state played a familiar role where waiting is used to dominate or subordinate or further marginalize the poor. Residents of the Lower Ninth Ward, however, appropriated waiting and used it as a basis for interacting with other community members and to cognitively adjust to their social abandonment. In doing so they created a tempography of hyper-marginalization where waiting became normative. In examining this tempography, I distinguish between three forms of waiting as social interaction.

Author

• Daina Cheyenne Harvey, College of the Holy Cross