ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the literature on the political ecologies of risk that analyze the ways in which neoliberal governance create environmental threats and 'normal accidents'. Then it explains the first wave of neoliberal governance reforms to the state's hog industry and community resistance to neoliberal governance and the hog industry, as well as the roll-out of a second wave of neoliberal reforms. Finally, it concludes that North Carolina's communities may face increasing risks, as sea levels rise on the coast and as the state rolls out a second wave of neoliberal governance reforms. The chapter also argues that the neoliberal governance of North Carolina's hog industry is the root cause of a series of environmental disasters on the flood plain, creating the conditions for these 'normal' accidents. Therefore the institutionalization of neoliberalism in the political-ecological fabric of the hog industry is the root cause of the disasters of hurricanes Bertha, Fran and Floyd.
