TY  - BOOK
AU  - Marina,Peter J.
AU  - Brotherton,David
TI  - Down and Out in New Orleans: Transgressive Living in the Informal Economy 
T2  - Studies in Transgression
SN  - 9780231178525
AV  - HN80.N45 M37 2017
U1  - 306.09763/35 
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - Columbia University Press, 
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; Foreword --; Acknowledgments --; CHAPTER 1 New Orleans: Romancing the City of Sin and Resistance --; CHAPTER 2 Th e Hard and Soft City: A Portrait of New Orleans Neighborhoods and Their Characters --; CHAPTER 3 Living Down and Out in New Orleans --; CHAPTER 4 Buskers, Hustlers, and Street Performers --; CHAPTER 4 Buskers, Hustlers, and Street Performers --; CHAPTER 6 City Squatting and Urban Camping --; CHAPTER 6 City Squatting and Urban Camping --; CHAPTER 8 Gentrification and Violent Cultural Resistance --; CHAPTER 9 Hipster Wonderland --; CHAPTER 10 Brass Bands and Second Lines --; Conclusion: The Fogs of New Orleans and the Future of the Crescent City --; Notes --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7312/mari17852
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231545198
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780231545198/original
ER  -