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Focus on New Orleans

Hating Bourbon Street

Richard Campanella April 1, 2018 Hating Bourbon Street2018-04-02T08:52:06-04:00 Focus on New Orleans
In this excerpt from this 2014 book Bourbon Street: A History (LSU Press), Tulane geographer Richard Campanella explains the curious cultural phenomenon of hating Bourbon Street—who hates it, why they need you to know they hate it, and what they’re missing when they hate it. Courtesy Places Journal. New Orleans: Place Portraits — Over the next…
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A Night on the Town in 1930s New Orleans

Richard Campanella April 1, 2018 A Night on the Town in 1930s New Orleans2018-04-02T08:52:55-04:00 Focus on New Orleans
If AAG came to New Orleans 85 years ago, you might be hitting a “nitery” on Rampart Street or a dance hall in the “Tango Belt” tonight. Tulane geographer Richard Campanella takes you out for a night on the town in 1930s New Orleans, courtesy Preservation in Print Magazine (PDF). New Orleans: Place Portraits — Over…
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Southwest Louisiana’s Creole Trail Riding Clubs 

Alexandra Giancarlo April 1, 2018 Southwest Louisiana’s Creole Trail Riding Clubs 2018-04-02T08:59:22-04:00 Annual Meeting
Jeanerette Trail Ride, Jeanerette, LA, 2015, Photo by Jeremiah Ariaz By Alexandra Giancarlo  Photos by Jeremiah Ariaz    You could say trail riding and horse culture is in Acynthia Villery’s blood. “I was going to rodeos in my mother’s womb,” she explained to me. A Texas transplant, Acynthia hails from a long line of Creoles in…
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Focus on New Orleans

Mapping the Geography of Cool

Richard Campanella April 1, 2018 Mapping the Geography of Cool2018-04-02T08:53:23-04:00 Focus on New Orleans
Coolness, by its very nature, explores edgy terrain; thus, in cities, it becomes geographical, occupying certain spaces, disdaining others, and seeking new ones when uncoolness approaches. And that’s when, and where, coolness affects real estate. Tulane geographer Richard Campanella maps the geography of cool in New Orleans, courtesy The Times-Picayune (PDF).  New Orleans: Place Portraits…
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Annual Meeting

New Orleans, Unmonumentalized

Brian Marks April 1, 2018 New Orleans, Unmonumentalized2018-04-05T17:28:35-04:00 Annual Meeting
Much has been said and written about the recent removal of four New Orleanian monuments to Confederate leaders and an 1874 white supremacist uprising . More will be said at the Annual Meeting. The wide-ranging struggle over New Orleanian monuments includes how those memorials (re)defined New Orleans’ place in American space and time around Lost…
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Flood Control Infrastructure and ‘Political Hydrology’ along the LA-TX Gulf Coast

Paul F. Hudson April 1, 2018 Flood Control Infrastructure and ‘Political Hydrology’ along the LA-TX Gulf Coast2018-04-02T16:59:43-04:00 Annual Meeting
An intact portion of the 17th Street Canal (flooded after Hurricane Katrina). Concrete flood walls top the levees. CC by Wikimedia Commons, by Infrogmation The nation’s costliest natural disasters continue to be caused by flooding. Every year, with enormous personal and financial cost to citizens, floods damage crops, infrastructure, businesses, personal property and, most unfortunately,…
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Continuing Creolization in New Orleans Foodways

Catarina Passidomo March 1, 2018 Continuing Creolization in New Orleans Foodways2019-04-23T09:46:28-04:00 Annual Meeting
Among other points of distinction, New Orleans is often and enthusiastically celebrated as a great place to eat. Boosters of the city’s cuisine point to the same cultural hybridity and cosmopolitanism that enabled the flourishing of jazz music and distinctive architectural styles as explanation for the development of Creole cuisine. Tom Fitzmorris, a prominent restaurant…
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Neutral Ground: From the Political Geography of Imperialism to the Street of New Orleans

Richard Campanella March 1, 2018 Neutral Ground: From the Political Geography of Imperialism to the Street of New Orleans2018-03-01T09:56:44-05:00 Focus on New Orleans
AAG visitors may hear locals refer to street medians as “neutral grounds.” It’s a term distinct to New Orleans, with roots in political and ethnic geography from 200 years ago, according to Tulane geographer Richard Campanella, courtesy Louisiana Cultural Vistas (PDF). New Orleans: Place Portraits — Over the next nine months, AAG’s “Focus on New Orleans…
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Focus on New Orleans

The Great Footprint Debate, Updated

Richard Campanella March 1, 2018 The Great Footprint Debate, Updated2018-03-01T09:57:22-05:00 Focus on New Orleans
In the tumultuous aftermath of the 2005 Katrina deluge, New Orleanians debated passionately a fundamental geographical question: should the city close down flood-damaged neighborhoods and shrink its urban “footprint” in the interest of environmental sustainability, or does every citizen have a right to return to their home? Tulane geographer Richard Campanella revisits “the Great Footprint…
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Focus on New Orleans

A Glorious Mess: Perceptual History of New Orleans Neighborhoods

Richard Campanella March 1, 2018 A Glorious Mess: Perceptual History of New Orleans Neighborhoods2018-03-01T09:56:02-05:00 Focus on New Orleans
Be skeptical of “official” city neighborhoods, writes Tulane geographer Richard Campanella. Neighborhoods are best delineated, named, and understood by the people who inhabit them, he argues, and in New Orleans, that makes for a glorious mess. Courtesy New Orleans Magazine.  New Orleans: Place Portraits — Over the next nine months, AAG’s “Focus on New Orleans and…
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Essential Geographies of New Orleans Music

Case Watkins March 1, 2018 Essential Geographies of New Orleans Music2019-04-23T09:54:05-04:00 Annual Meeting
Part 2: Rhythms, Blues, and the Infinite Potential of Congo Square What comes after jazz? How does a city reprise its collective creation of the Americas’ most original and distinctive art form? Part 2 of this essay surveys happenings in New Orleans music since the emergence of jazz around the turn of the twentieth century.…
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Louisiana’s Turn to Mass Incarceration: The Building of a Carceral State

Lydia Pelot-Hobbs February 1, 2018 Louisiana’s Turn to Mass Incarceration: The Building of a Carceral State2018-03-14T16:20:46-04:00 Focus on New Orleans
Louisiana's prison and jail incarceration rates from 1978 to 2015 showing the number of people incarcerated in state prisons and local jails per 100,000 people; #methodology The history of the Louisiana penal system is marked through crisis. For the majority of the 20th century such crises revolved around the state’s singular prison, the Louisiana State…
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