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Violent atmospheres : livelihoods and landscapes in crisis in Southeast Asia /

"In Southeast Asia, atmospheric violence emerges from the haze plumes of burning of palm oil plantations, the invisible but powerful spread of viral flows, and the subordination of upland farmers who have long depended on fire to clear land for new crops. Yet only recently have political ecolog...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Dressler, Wolfram Heinz (Editor), Mostafanezhad, Mary (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2025]
Subjects:
Human ecology > Political aspects > Southeast Asia.
Natural resources > Southeast Asia > Management.
Nature > Effect of human beings on > Southeast Asia.
Ressources naturelles > Asie du Sud-Est > Gestion.
Êtres humains > Influence sur la nature > Asie du Sud-Est.
Electronic books.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Violent Atmospheres
  • Deathtrap Landscape: The Politics of Reclamation of East Kalimantan's Abandoned Coal Mines
  • The Everyday Violence of Coal-Fired Power in Shan State, Myanmar
  • Quarantined Activism: COVID-19 and Extractivism in the Philippines
  • Violent Displacement and Volumetric Change
  • The Catastrophic and Slow Violence of the Xe Pian Xe Namnoy Dam in Southern Laos
  • Dams, Flows, and Data: Volumetric Hydropolitics in the Mekong Basin
  • The Volumetric Territory of Indonesia's Peat Fires
  • The Violence of Transboundary Haze: The Wealth/Health Paradox in Southeast Asia
  • Carbon Bureaucracy and Violence in Cambodia
  • Carbon Crises: Molecular Violence across and beyond Southeast Asia
  • Atmospheric: An Afterword.