Coastal Urbanities : Mobilities, Meanings, Manoeuvrings / edited by Rapti Siriwardane-de Zoysa [and three others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Siriwardane-de Zoysa, Rapti, editor.

Series:

Social sciences in Asia ; Volume 42.

Social Sciences in Asia Series ; Volume 42

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cities and towns--Growth.

Cities and towns.

Cities and towns--Southeast Asia.

Coastal settlements--Southeast Asia.

Coastal settlements.

Coastal zone management--Southeast Asia.

Coastal zone management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (248 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, The Netherlands : Koninklijke Brill NV, [2022]

Summary:

"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 the sea in coastal cities, through a mobility-inspired understanding of urbanity itself. How might conceptualisations of contemporary coastal urbanisms be approached from the sea, in ways that complicate singularly terrestrial, fixed framings of the city? What connections, contradictions, and dissonances can be found between sea change and urban change? While addressing these questions, the authors re-centre more marginal voices of those who dwell and work in islanded metropoles, offering new insights on the futures and contested nature(s) of littoral urban transformation"-- Provided by publisher.

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.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

Other Format:

Print version: Siriwardane-de Zoysa, Rapti Coastal Urbanities

ISBN:

9789004523340

9004523340