"Still on the Map!" takes as its context the Mississippi Delta fifteen years after Hurricane Katrina and about five years after the commissioning of the major new "100-year" flood protection infrastructure. Expressed from its title -a statement of resistance/resilience chanted by many inhabitants during ecological events in Louisiana- this research project aims to describe the links and "attachments" (LATOUR, 2017) that different communities in the delta maintain with their geographical environment in a situation of strong ecological tipping point, integrating the natural and artificial infrastructures of the watershed into the definition of ecosystems as socio-political actors in their own right. In a context where the delta's land is grad...
Louisiana, USA, operates as an oilscape, sacrificing its landscape in pursuit of economic prosperity...
Two hundred and forty-six acres along the eastern edge of downtown Memphis are labeled as “Shaded Zo...
Ever since the devastating Hurricane Katrina struck Louisiana, it has been losing an abundant amount...
This thesis explores the relationship between water infrastructure, ecological change, and the polit...
International audienceThe Mississippi delta is regularly the scene of ecological and climatic catacl...
The impact of global warming is often debated as a future issue which encourages complacency, inacti...
Large deltas are commonly believed to exhibit rapid rates of tectonic subsidence, largely due to sed...
This is water to which people are increasingly turning to find innovative solutions to water scarcit...
Every thousand years or so, when the Mississippi River\u27s sediment load lengthened and blocked the...
New Orleans, Louisiana USA is on the banks of the massive Mississippi River and its history is inext...
The dissertation is about power and the landscape that power produces. It explicates a paradox of mo...
For the past 100 million years, redeposited sediment has gradually increased the size of the Mississ...
The lower plain of the Mississippi River Delta contains approximately five coastal sedimentary basin...
A pressing question facing the Mississippi River Delta (MRD), like many deltaic communities around t...
Engineered projects resulting in unintended consequences, coastal erosion, subsidence, and sea-level...
Louisiana, USA, operates as an oilscape, sacrificing its landscape in pursuit of economic prosperity...
Two hundred and forty-six acres along the eastern edge of downtown Memphis are labeled as “Shaded Zo...
Ever since the devastating Hurricane Katrina struck Louisiana, it has been losing an abundant amount...
This thesis explores the relationship between water infrastructure, ecological change, and the polit...
International audienceThe Mississippi delta is regularly the scene of ecological and climatic catacl...
The impact of global warming is often debated as a future issue which encourages complacency, inacti...
Large deltas are commonly believed to exhibit rapid rates of tectonic subsidence, largely due to sed...
This is water to which people are increasingly turning to find innovative solutions to water scarcit...
Every thousand years or so, when the Mississippi River\u27s sediment load lengthened and blocked the...
New Orleans, Louisiana USA is on the banks of the massive Mississippi River and its history is inext...
The dissertation is about power and the landscape that power produces. It explicates a paradox of mo...
For the past 100 million years, redeposited sediment has gradually increased the size of the Mississ...
The lower plain of the Mississippi River Delta contains approximately five coastal sedimentary basin...
A pressing question facing the Mississippi River Delta (MRD), like many deltaic communities around t...
Engineered projects resulting in unintended consequences, coastal erosion, subsidence, and sea-level...
Louisiana, USA, operates as an oilscape, sacrificing its landscape in pursuit of economic prosperity...
Two hundred and forty-six acres along the eastern edge of downtown Memphis are labeled as “Shaded Zo...
Ever since the devastating Hurricane Katrina struck Louisiana, it has been losing an abundant amount...