Building on borrowed time : rising seas and failing infrastructure in Semarang /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Ley, Lukas (Author)
Corporate Author:	JSTOR (Organization)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2021.
Subjects:	Human beings > Effect of environment on > Indonesia > Semarang. Floods > Social aspects > Indonesia > Semarang. Floods > Political aspects > Indonesia > Semarang. Floods > Economic aspects > Indonesia > Semarang. Climatic changes > Social aspects > Indonesia > Semarang. Climatic changes > Political aspects > Indonesia > Semarang. Climatic changes > Economic aspects > Indonesia > Semarang. Climatic changes > Economic aspects. Climatic changes > Political aspects. Climatic changes > Social aspects. Floods > Economic aspects. Floods > Social aspects. Human beings > Effect of environment on. Indonesia > Semarang. Electronic books.
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Table of 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.