Disastrous times : beyond environmental crisis in urbanizing Asia / edited by Eli Elinoff and Tyson Vaughan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Vaughan, Tyson, editor.

Elinoff, Eli, editor.

Series:

Critical studies in risk and disaster.

Critical Studies in Risk and Disaster

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental disasters--Government policy--Asia.

Environmental disasters.

Environmental disasters--Social aspects--Asia.

Urbanization--Environmental aspects--Asia.

Urbanization.

Asia--Environmental conditions--21st century.

Asia.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 p.) : 10 illus.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2021]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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, quotidian experiences enables us to apprehend the complex processes that are profoundly changing the planet.

Contents:

Breathing in Beijing : governing particles and people in urban China / Samuel Kay

Figuring (out) the sinking city : tidal floods and urban subsidence in Semarang, Indonesia / Lukas Ley

Ambient air : Kolkata's bicycle politics and postcarbon futures / Malini Sur

Infrastructures of feeling : the sense and governance of disasters in Sri Lanka / Vivian Choi

Lots of smoke, but where's the fire? Contested causality and shifting blame in the Southeast Asian haze crisis / Jenny Elaine Goldstein

Reimagining the natures of state : the rise of fisheries co-management in Vietnam / Edmund Joo Vin Oh

The new, accidental gods : engaging with the spirits of disaster in Bangkok / Andrew Alan Johnson

The unspectacular spectacle of low-carbon life : climate change and self governing in an urban community in China / Nikolaj Blichfeldt

Drawing the future : urban imaginaries after the 2011 Thai floods / Eli Elinoff

Re-mooring : rethinking recovery and resilience in the Anthropocene / Tyson Vaughan.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780812297690

0812297695

OCLC:

1233041393