Author Night at Hubbell Library: Ned Randolph

Muddy Thinking in the Mississippi River Delta

Using the case study of South Louisiana, "Muddy Thinking" asks how a place uniquely vulnerable to sea level rise became one of the nation's most promiscuous producers and consumers of fossil fuels.

Organized around New Orleans and South Louisiana as a case study, Muddy Thinking in the Mississippi River Delta examines how the unruly Mississippi River and its muddy delta shaped the people, culture, and governance of the region. It proposes a framework of "muddy thinking" to gum the wheels of extractive capitalism and pollution that have brought us to the precipice of planetary collapse. Muddy Thinking calls upon our dirty, shared histories to address urgent questions of mutual survival and care in a rapidly changing world.

Ned Randolph holds a PhD in Communication from the University of California, San Diego. He lives in New Orleans, where he is a Visiting Scholar at Tulane University, and consults and writes about environmental and social issues facing the Gulf South.

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