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Author Ley, Lukas, author

Title Building on borrowed time : rising seas and failing infrastructure in Semarang / Lukas Ley
Published Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, [2021]

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Description 1 online resource (238 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Introduction: tidal flooding and chronic infrastructural breakdown -- Becoming: Semarang's swamp in late colonial times -- Stuck: never-ending river normalization -- Floating: endurance and the "quasi-events" of living with flooding -- Figuring: environmental governance and the political affordances of infrastructure -- Promise: remodeling drainage
Summary "A timely ethnography of how Indonesia's coastal dwellers inhabit the "chronic present" of a slow-motion natural disaster"-- Provided by publisher
Subject Climatic changes -- Economic aspects -- Indonesia -- Semarang
Climatic changes -- Political aspects -- Indonesia -- Semarang
Climatic changes -- Social aspects -- Indonesia -- Semarang
Floods -- Economic aspects -- Indonesia -- Semarang
Floods -- Political aspects -- Indonesia -- Semarang
Floods -- Social aspects -- Indonesia -- Semarang
Human beings -- Effect of environment on -- Indonesia -- Semarang
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban.
Human beings -- Effect of environment on
Floods -- Social aspects
Floods -- Economic aspects
Climatic changes -- Social aspects
Climatic changes -- Political aspects
Climatic changes -- Economic aspects
Indonesia -- Semarang
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781452962887
145296288X
9781452962894
1452962898
1517908884
9781517908881