Disastrous Times : : Beyond Environmental Crisis in Urbanizing Asia / / ed. by Eli Elinoff, Tyson Vaughan.

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• MitwirkendeR: Blichfeldt, Nikolaj,; Choi, Vivian,; Elinoff, Eli,; Goldstein, Jenny Elaine,; Johnson, Andrew Alan,; Joo Vin Oh, Edmund,; Kay, Samuel,; Ley, Lukas,; Sur, Malini,; Vaughan, Tyson,
• HerausgeberIn: Elinoff, Eli,; Vaughan, Tyson,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2020]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Critical Studies in Risk and Disaster
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.) :; 10 illus.

Across contemporary Asia, each day dawns with a new story about living in an era of profound environmental change. Rapid transformations in the landscape, society, and technology produce new conflicts that are experienced at nearly every scale of life in the region. Environmental change is marked in square kilometers or micrometers, in cities or in households, within national boundaries and beyond. These changes appear in the form of radical ruptures wrought both by spectacular catastrophes like massive floods or tsunamis and by slow tragedies like the widening epidemic of asthma or the grinding processes of land dispossession. Each of these scales and phenomena reveals what it is to live in disastrous times.This book explores how people across Asia live through and make sense of the environmental ruptures that now shape the region and asks how we might analyze this moment of disruption and risk. Global environmental shifts such as climate change are usually linked to large-scale practices such as industrialization, urbanization, and global capitalism. Here, in contrast, contributors illustrate how understanding the practical, political, and ethical consequences of living in a moment of planetary change—or intervening in its course—requires engaging with the human-scale actions and specific policies that both shape and respond to such transformations at an everyday level. Coastal residents of routinely flooded Semarang, eco-conscious retirees in a Chinese suburb, and cyclists navigating air pollution in Kolkata each experience environmental risk and change in highly situated and specific ways; yet attending to their lived, "idian experiences enables us to apprehend the complex processes that are profoundly changing the planet.Contributors: Nikolaj Blichfeldt, Vivian Choi, Eli Elinoff, Jenny Elaine Goldstein, Andrew Alan Johnson, Samuel Kay, Lukas Ley, Edmund Joo Vin Oh, Malini Sur, Tyson Vaughan.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction. Disastrous Times: Beyond Environmental Crisis in Urbanizing Asia -- Chapter 1. Breathing in Beijing: Governing Particles and People in Urban China -- Chapter 2. Figuring (Out) the Sinking City: Tidal Floods and Urban Subsidence in Semarang, Indonesia -- Chapter 3. Ambient Air: Kolkata’s Bicycle Politics and Postcarbon Futures -- Chapter 4. Infrastructures of Feeling: The Sense and Governance of Disasters in Sri Lanka -- Chapter 5. Lots of Smoke, but Where’s the Fire? Contested Causality and Shifting Blame in the Southeast Asian Haze Crisis -- Chapter 6. Reimagining the Natures of State: The Rise of Fisheries Co- management in Vietnam -- Chapter 7. The New, Accidental Gods: Engaging with the Spirits of Disaster in Bangkok -- Chapter 8. The Unspectacular Spectacle of Low- Carbon Life: Climate Change and Self Governing in an Urban Community in China -- Chapter 9. Drawing the Future: Urban Imaginaries After the 2011 Thai Floods -- Chapter 10. Re- mooring: Rethinking Recovery and Resilience in the Anthropocene -- List of Contributors -- Index -- Acknowledgments