Disastrous Times : : Beyond Environmental Crisis in Urbanizing Asia /

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

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English
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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.) :; 10 illus.
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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

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