Engineering vulnerability : in pursuit of climate adaptation / Sarah E. Vaughn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vaughn, Sarah E., 1983- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Climatic changes--Guyana.

Climatic changes.

Climate change mitigation--Guyana.

Climate change mitigation.

Environmental education--Guyana.

Environmental education.

Floods--Guyana.

Floods.

Guyana--Environmental conditions.

Guyana.

Ecology.

Physical Description:

xiii, 256 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2022.

Summary:

"Engineering Vulnerability is an ethnography of climate adaptation in Guyana, where different portions of the population experience and understand environmental threats differently. Sarah E. Vaughn focuses on the collaborations between state experts and citizens following the 2005 flood that left 75 percent of the country's population stranded in water, and highlights how government engineers and local villagers each had knowledge that was formed through their racial positioning in the country. While climate adaptation is often seen as primarily a state project, especially in relation to disaster, Vaughn shows that it cannot be understood apart from the multiple histories and relations to the environment that differently position citizens and experts who must work together in the face of climate vulnerability"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

"Where Would I Go? There Was No Place with No Water"

Disaster Evidence

The Racial Politics of Settlers

Engineering, Archives, and Experts

Compensation and Resettlement

Love Stories

Accountability and the Militarization of Technoscience

The Ordinary

Materializing Race and Climate Change.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Vaughn, Sarah E., 1983- Engineering vulnerability

ISBN:

9781478015482

1478015489

9781478018100

1478018100

OCLC:

1252846379