Coastal Urbanities : : Mobilities, Meanings, Manoeuvrings.
"This volume explores how the city and the sea converse and converge in creating new forms of everyday urbanity in archipelagic and island Southeast Asia. Drawing inspiration from case studies spanning Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, and New Caledonia, the volume rethinks the place of th...
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| Superior document: | Social Sciences in Asia |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Boston : : BRILL,, 2022. ©2023. |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Social Sciences in Asia
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (248 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Figures and Tables
- Notes on Contributors
- Tidal Turns: Coastal Urbanities in Island Southeast Asia
- Part 1 Dwelling and Disciplining
- 1 Sensory and Embodied Narratives of Sea Lives and Displacement: The Orang Laut in Singapore
- 2 The Boat Will Rise, Too: on the Necessity, Allure, and Terror of Water
- 3 Controlling Nature, Disciplining Human Nature: Floods in Singapore and Metro Manila, 1945-1980s
- Part 2 Littoral Contestations
- 4 (Re)Locating the 'Danger Zone': Post-Disaster Planning and Class-Based Displacement in Tacloban City, Philippines
- 5 A Tsunami of Anxiety: the 57-Metre Wave That Shook Jakarta and Western Java
- 6 Governability of Air: Beyond Water and Land in Coastal Urbanities
- Part 3 Futuring the Coastal Metropolis
- 7 Urban Futures: Spectral Time in the Archipelago
- 8 Sanded: Sedimented Pasts and Shored Futures in 'Outer' Singapore
- 9 'A Brilliant Future of Floating Islands': Sea Level Rise as New Profit Frontier
- Epilogue: Reconfiguring Coastal Urbanities - Discourse, Practice and Theory
- Index.