Disastrous times: beyond environmental crisis in urbanizing Asia

This book explores how people across Asia live, struggle, and make sense of the sorts of environmental ruptures, fast and slow, that now shape the region. The chapters ask how we might analyze this moment of rupture and risk. How do we think about disasters that seem to occur instantaneously but act...

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Other Authors: Elinoff, Eli (Editor), Vaughan, Tyson (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Press [2021]
Series:Critical studies in risk and disaster
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Summary:This book explores how people across Asia live, struggle, and make sense of the sorts of environmental ruptures, fast and slow, that now shape the region. The chapters ask how we might analyze this moment of rupture and risk. How do we think about disasters that seem to occur instantaneously but actually draw from deep historical roots and structure future trajectories? How are the burdens of such ruptures distributed? What kinds of sites, stories, analytical approaches, and theoretical tools might be used to help us understand these environmental changes and conflicts? What kinds of struggles-personal, ethical, political, and environmental-flow into and out of these changes? In what specific ways are human communities set adrift by the lashing waves of near-constant environmental upheaval? How do people navigate these dangerous waters? And how might they "re-moor" once the waters calm?--
Physical Description:vi, 228 Seiten
ISBN:9780812252705

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