Phillip Drake

Indonesia and the Politics of Disaster

Power and Representation in Indonesia's Mud Volcano

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Produktbeschreibung

Named after Lapindo Brantas, a gas exploration company that was drilling at the eruption site, the Lapindo mudflow initially burst in 2006 and continues to flow today, becoming the most expensive disaster in Indonesia's history. Using this environmental incident in Indonesia as a case study, this book explores representations of disaster in scientific reports, public discourse, literature, and other cultural forms, observing the impact of these portrayals on the ways people both understand and respond to complicated environmental disasters.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 202
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 473g
• ISBN-13: 9781138696204
• ISBN-10: 113869620X
• Artikelnr.: 45662115

Autorenporträt

Phillip Drake is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Kansas, USA. His teaching and research focuses on environmental literature and rhetoric, science and technology studies, Marxism, animal studies, and environmental politics.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The Trigger Debate and the Politics of Inquiry: Was it Drilling or an
Earthquake that Caused the Mud Volcano?
1a. Contesting the Name: Is it Sidoarjo's or Lapindo's Mudflow?
2. The Disaster Management Apparatus: Managing Disaster and Opposition
2a. Recent Trends Shaping Indonesia's Political Economy of Disaster
3. Knowledge, Power, and Rift: Bending Information Networks
3a. Bakrie Mysteries
4. The Victims: Testimony and the Politics of Environmental Justice
4a. Breaking the Wall
5. Broadening the Field of Contestation: Representing the Mudflow in
Folklore, Literature, and Public Performance
5a. Humor and Disaster
6. New Landscapes: Composing and Contesting Mud Island
Epilogue: Fighting for the Future of the Mud Volcano