California Desert Communities: Community Science in the Salton Sea
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California Desert Communities: Lithium Valley
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California Desert Communities: Infrastructure
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California Desert Communities: Mural Country
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California Desert Communities: Organizations and Agencies
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California Desert Communites: Concepts in Play
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California Desert Communities: EcoGovLab in the Field
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California Desert Communities: Roles and Careers in Comite Civico de Valle
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1. “Chronic disaster syndrome” thus refers in this analysis to the cluster of trauma-and posttrauma-related phenomena that are at once individual, social, and political and that are associated with disaster as simultaneously causative and experiential of a chronic condition of distress in relation to displacement.
2. Most efforts to rebuild health care facilities focused on emergency care, routine care, and surgical services rather than psychiatry.
3. For many people, the idea that they had to stay in a state of heightened response to the pending “crisis”—a state they had already been in for over two years—produced huge anxiety and exhaustion.
4. Instead, the notion that New Orleanians themselves were a threat to public or national security circulated and became a rationale for the efforts the government did take to effect change in New Orleans. This change, in effect, targeted the poor. The poor, it seems, were to be evicted from New Orleans as a way to “clean up” the city and help it recover once and for all.