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Situation Normal? Repairing a Risky Ecology

Colgate University, chenke{at}mail.colgate.edu

The river goes through New Orleans like an elevated highway. Jackson Square, in the French Quarter, is on high ground with respect to the rest of New Orleans, but even from the benches of Jackson Square one looks up across the levee at the hulls of the passing ships. Their keels are higher than the Astro Turf in the Superdome, and if somehow the ships could turn and move at river level into the city and into the stadium they would hover above the playing field like blimps.

Key Words: repair • risk • power • built environment

Social Studies of Science, Vol. 37, No. 1, 135-142 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/0306312706069436


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