Muddy Thinking in the Mississippi River Delta
eBook - ePub

Muddy Thinking in the Mississippi River Delta

A Call for Reclamation

  1. 266 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Muddy Thinking in the Mississippi River Delta

A Call for Reclamation

About this book

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.

Muddy Thinking in the Mississippi River Delta uses the story of mud to answer a deceptively simple question: How can a place uniquely vulnerable to sea level rise be one of the nation's most promiscuous producers and consumers of fossil fuels? Organized around New Orleans and South Louisiana as a case study, this book examines how the unruly Mississippi River and its muddy delta shaped the people, culture, and governance of the region. It proposes a framework of "muddy thinking" to gum the wheels of extractive capitalism and pollution that have brought us to the precipice of planetary collapse. Muddy Thinking calls upon our dirty, shared histories to address urgent questions of mutual survival and care in a rapidly changing world.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. List of Illustrations
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Land Acknowledgment
  9. Introduction: A Turn to Mud
  10. Interlude: Vignette
  11. 1. A Mudscape in Motion
  12. Interlude: On the Mermantau
  13. 2. Muddy Foil
  14. Interlude: Toledo Bend
  15. 3. The Villainous River
  16. Interlude: Whose Paradise?
  17. 4. The Birth of River Science and Grassroots Greenwashing
  18. Interlude: The Arrivals
  19. 5. The “Katrina Effect” and the Working Coast
  20. Interlude: A Modest Proposal
  21. 6. Mud, Plastics, and Cancer Alley
  22. Interlude: Landfall
  23. Conclusion: Stuck in the Mud
  24. Notes
  25. Bibliography