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Race, Environment, and Crisis : Hurricane Camille and the Politics of Southern Segregation

Publiceringsår

2024

Upphovspersoner

Arffman, Atte; Holmila, Antero

Abstrakt

In August 1969 Hurricane Camille hit the Mississippi coast. We argue that the disaster caused by the Hurricane was an outcome of the entanglement between human and non-human agents. As a non-human agent, Hurricane Camille thrust the prevailing socio-economic situation in the segregationist South into the spotlight, with all its political and cultural ramifications – much to the annoyance of the local political elite that had long sought to isolate southern politics from civil rights and desegregation agenda. Consequently, it (re)invigorated and furnished the civil rights movement and the politics defining that era with new arguments and approaches that would have been impossible to develop from the perspective of human agency alone. By examining both local and national press discourses relating to the crisis caused by Hurricane Camille in the state of Mississippi in August 1969, we argue that historical agency should not be seen in purely anthropocentric terms but as an entanglement between human and non-human events.
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Organisationer och upphovspersoner

Jyväskylä universitet

Arffman Atte Orcid -palvelun logo

Holmila Antero Orcid -palvelun logo

Publikationstyp

Publikationsform

Artikel

Moderpublikationens typ

Tidning

Artikelstyp

En originalartikel

Målgrupp

Vetenskaplig

Kollegialt utvärderad

Kollegialt utvärderad

UKM:s publikationstyp

A1 Originalartikel i en vetenskaplig tidskrift

Publikationskanalens uppgifter

Volym

30

Nummer

2

Sidor

187-209

Publikationsforum

55324

Publikationsforumsnivå

2

Öppen tillgång

Öppen tillgänglighet i förläggarens tjänst

Nej

Parallellsparad

Ja

Övriga uppgifter

Vetenskapsområden

Statsvetenskap; Historia och arkeologi

Nyckelord

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Publiceringsland

Förenade kungariket

Förlagets internationalitet

Internationell

Språk

engelska

Internationell sampublikation

Nej

Sampublikation med ett företag

Nej

DOI

10.3197/096734022X16552219786636

Publikationen ingår i undervisnings- och kulturministeriets datainsamling

Ja