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