Always expect lagniappe (a little something extra) from your visit to New Orleans. Here we offer some glimpses of local life that are interesting to view through an STS lens.
The state loses a football field’s worth of land every hour and a half. Now engineers are in a race to prevent it from sinking By Elizabeth Kolbert. Pointer to the
Bulbancha is much older than New Orleans. Before the first Europeans came here, it was a place where people from around 40 distinct Native groups crisscrossed, traded, followed game and
Big Freedia’s rap music is a part of the ether of modern New Orleans. So what better authentic travel guide to the city that so many tourists love to visit?
For community organizers in New Orleans, action to oppose the carceral state first requires the building of community. Keahnan Washington, January 25, 2019. Pointer to Anthropology News. (Baner photo: Voice of
Women of the Storm Final.mov from LiarsandMadmen on Vimeo. Are women better at civic activism than men? Women of the Storm provides an affirmative answer through the story of a
A documentary by Quinn Costello, Chris Metzler & Jeff Springer. May the best mammal win. See also this feature in the Guardian.
Today the French Quarter of New Orleans is among the most instantly recognizable half-square miles in the world and is synonymous with the city as a whole. It is also
The EPA says this town has the nation’s highest risk of developing cancer from air toxins. The plant emitting the toxins says otherwise. Locals are outraged. By Victor Blackwell, Wayne
Southeast Louisiana Is Disappearing, Quickly. A football field–sized area of land is being washed away every hour, and lawsuits are being filed to hold oil and gas companies responsible for the
New Orleans area levee system ‘high risk,’ and ‘minimally acceptable’, Corps says. Pointer to NOLA.com.
How mind-boggling to think that so much Hurricane Katrina history is contained in a ribbed fragment of concrete. By Douglas Brinkley. Pointer to Smithsonian Magazine.
How Once-Illegal Absinthe Became a New Orleans Staple. By David Watsky. Pointer to Chowhound.