卡特里娜飓风过后的几年里，新奥尔良的现代波西米亚人发现自己被新的旅游经济逼到了贫困的边缘。社会学家和民族学家彼得·J·马里纳以乔治·奥威尔的《巴黎和伦敦的穷困潦倒》为蓝本，探索了新奥尔良绅士化的陌生一面。20世纪20年代的巴黎，奥威尔见证了当地人和外来者的涌入，他们在努力与资产阶级社会共存的同时，也在寻求真实性。玛丽娜在新奥尔良也发现了类似的矛盾心理：这是一个依赖旅游业的城市，其商业主要面向富有的本地人和上流社会旅行者，在那里，许多富有创造力的本地人和流浪者自愿或不自愿地成为局外人。
玛丽娜不仅采访了这些充满活力的城市异类——他也生活在他们当中。
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Down and Out in New Orleans: Transgressive Living in the Informal Economy
In the years since Hurricane Katrina, the modern-day bohemians of New Orleans have found themselves forced to the edges of poverty by the new tourist economy. Modeling his work after George Orwell’s Down and Out in Paris and London, the sociologist and ethnographer Peter J. Marina explores this unfamiliar side of the gentrifying “new” New Orleans. In 1920s Paris, Orwell witnessed an influx of locals and outsiders seeking authenticity while struggling to live with bourgeois society. Marina finds a similar ambivalence in New Orleans: a tourism-dependent city whose commerce caters largely to well-heeled natives and upper-class travelers, where many creative locals and wanderers have remained outsiders, willingly or otherwise.
Marina does not merely interview these spirited urban misfits―he lives among them.
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