The Fema Trailer Parks: Negative Perceptions and the Social Structure of Avoidance

Lee, Matthew R.; Weil, Frederick D.; Shihadeh, Edward S.

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“…Whether residents from the local area themselves were placed in these trailer parks may have made a difference in levels of acceptance from the neighborhood (cf. Lee, Weil, and Shihadeh ). Unfortunately, these data are more difficult to collect because of privacy concerns.…”

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“…Large‐scale surveys of Southern residents after Katrina confirmed the negative views that most citizens have of such facilities. In interviews with more than 1,000 local residents in East Baton Rouge Parish (located close to the city of New Orleans), Lee, Weil, and Shihadeh (, 752) found that more than half of the respondents envisioned trailers parks as bringing trash and litter, increasing crime, and driving property values down. Logistic regression models show that white respondents were particularly sensitive to the issues of trash, litter, and crime and would be more likely to engage in “avoidance behaviors” such as changing their driving routes to avoid contact or, if necessary, going so far as to sell their homes.…”

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“…Previous research on trailer siting after Katrina has argued that race played a significant role in decision making, so that at zip‐code‐level African American communities were more likely to receive trailers than similar white areas (Davis and Bali ). Lee, Weil, and Shihadeh () explored the relationship between race and associations with trailers, finding that being white was a strong predictor of concern about crime from FEMA trailer parks. The same research found that individuals who identified with evacuees were less bothered by the presence of trailer parks.…”

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Taking the High Ground:FEMATrailer Siting after Hurricane Katrina

Aldrich

Crook

2013

Public Administration Review

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Taking the High Ground:FEMATrailer Siting after Hurricane Katrina

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Crook

2013

Public Administration Review

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“…This indicates a high level of organizing ability and positions them as influential voters in New Orleans. Lee citing Aldrich writes, "the dark side of community social capital was revealed when the communities with a more vibrant civic culture or with more political power were more effective at retarding FEMA trailer placements than those with less social capital" (Lee, 2007). Lakewood is a perfect example of this dark side.…”

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Social New Orleans: Identity, Capital, Space

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Fundamentally, space is a social product. Social practices both create and are supported by the built environment. Urbanity is so much more than a dense array of buildings; it is the street, the sidewalks, the alleys, the parks, the people--from the houseless to the penthoused. A city is best understood through the mechanisms that produce the social capital, identity, and space of those people who occupy it. The city of New Orleans is no exception. In 2005, Hurricane Katrina displaced hundreds of thousands of residents, deeply impacting the social economy of the city. This research explicates three unique social practices in New Orleans in a case study format. Each case study situates itself in an established urban theory that describes an urban condition in social terms. The theorists applied in each study respectively are Jane Jacobs, Richard Florida, and Henri Lefebvre. Often, the city is rationalized as an immutable object that is navigated. The purpose of this thesis is to render urban spaces in New Orleans (the street, the neighborhood, and the land) as the product of social practices and the built environment, each mutually producing and defining one another. ConclusionComposite Drawing Bibliography SOCIAL NEW ORLEANS: IDENTITY, CAPITAL, SPACE work of Henri Lefebvre, with the hope of gleaning insight and perspective on a conflict that arose in the Algiers section of New Orleans very soon after Katrina. Broadly, this section engages the nature of communication and its influence on social practices and urban interventions. Communication is central to the production of Space. Space is not an object but a dynamic construction of layered dialogue. Henri Lefebvre argues that space is political by explicating space as the conflated product of social practices, facts, race, gender, etc. Here we examine the construction of Space through communication, more specifically, the communication of FEMA, the city government of New Orleans, a neighborhood named Lakewood Estates, and those individuals who were displaced by Hurricane Katrina, that constructed the Space associated with the section of land identified by FEMA as a temporary housing trailer site. Inextricably related to the communication of respective entities is their social capital and their mechanisms of social capital production which are closely related to class, race, gender, education, etc. To understand the construction of this Space via communication, we must identify the stakeholders' methods of communication and their motives as they relate to each other and to the land itself. This section explores stakeholders' methods of communication and argues that the technocratic and rational communication methods of FEMA acted as a common communication method among stakeholders which resulted in a conversation rooted in emotion and irrational, made opaque by a mask of rationale. The Lefebvrian idea of the Everyday, specifically the notion of a common denominator, provides a lens to understand the incongruities of stakeholder communication. The purpose of this s...

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Media‐Related Fear

Hoffner¹,

Cohen²

2012

The International Encyclopedia of Media Studies

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Fear responses to media exert a powerful influence over people's perceptions, expectations, and behavior. Grounded in emotion theory, this chapter provides a framework for understanding fear responses to mediated threats in three areas of media scholarship: immediate responses to media, risk perceptions, and intergroup relations. First, the chapter examines why and how mediated messages evoke fear, and the consequences of fear during and after media use. Second, theory and research on the relationship between media‐induced fear and risk perceptions are reviewed. Third, media‐related fear is examined in the context of social relations, focusing on (1) how framing various groups as threats can lead to fear, stereotyping, and behavioral responses, and (2) how groups portrayed as threats respond when anticipating media influence on others. Finally, limitations of the literature and suggestions for future research (including the role of new technologies) are discussed.

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The Fema Trailer Parks: Negative Perceptions and the Social Structure of Avoidance

Cited by 11 publications

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Taking the High Ground:FEMATrailer Siting after Hurricane Katrina

Taking the High Ground:FEMATrailer Siting after Hurricane Katrina

Social New Orleans: Identity, Capital, Space

Media‐Related Fear

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