@article{ref1,
title="The drowned world: J. G. Ballard and the politics of catastrophe",
journal="Space and culture",
year="2006",
author="Gandy, M.",
volume="9",
number="1",
pages="86-88",
abstract="J. G. Ballard's fictional depiction of a future London under water bears a striking similarity with the actual experience of New Orleans. In reality, however, the impact of racism and &quot;disaster capitalism&quot; on both relief efforts and urban reconstruction have added a disturbing new dimension to Ballard's neo-Hobbesian evocation of the collapse of the late modern public realm.<p />",
language="",
issn="1206-3312",
doi="10.1177/1206331205283732",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1206331205283732"
}