Sarah E Vaughn

Engineering Vulnerability

In Pursuit of Climate Adaptation

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Produktbeschreibung

Sarah E. Vaughn examines climate adaptation against the backdrop of ongoing processes of settler colonialism and the global climate change initiatives that seek to intervene on the lives of the world’s most vulnerable.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. April 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 151mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 382g
• ISBN-13: 9781478018100
• ISBN-10: 1478018100
• Artikelnr.: 61992382

Autorenporträt

Sarah E. Vaughn is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley.

Inhaltsangabe

Abbreviations  vii
Technical Notes  ix
Acknowledgments  xi
Introduction: “Where Would I Go? There Was No Place with No Water”  1
1. Disaster Evidence  29
2. The Racial Politics of Settlers  47
3. Engineering, Archives, and Experts  69
4. Compensation and Resettlement  97
5. Love Stories  127
6. Accountability and the Militarization of Technoscience  153
7. The Ordinary  177
Conclusion: Materializing Race and Climate Change  197
Notes  205
References  221
Index  247