Doreen’s Reviews > Markets of Sorrow, Labors of Faith: New Orleans in the Wake of Katrina > Status Update

“If neoliberal policies have always discouraged dependency on the part of the poor and needy on govt “handouts” not only as failures of public policy but also as failures of personhood and citizenship, then new regimes of marketization governance both reinforce and reverse this logic. They enable the needy to become a site for the production of capital, generating profits for companies...after a disaster”