Threatening dystopias the global politics of climate change adaptation in Bangladesh
Paprocki, Kasia
Threatening dystopias the global politics of climate change adaptation in Bangladesh Kasia Paprocki - 1 online resource illustrations, maps - Cornell series on land: new perspectives in territory, development, and environment .
"Sluttish, careless, rotting abundance": prehistories of a climate dystopia -- Threatening dystopias: development and adaptation regimes -- Opportunity/crisis: knowledge production and the politics of uncertainty -- The social life of climate science: circulations of knowledge and uncertainty in development practice -- Autopsy of a village: agrarian change after the shrimp boom -- "We have come this far, we cannot retreat": adaptation, resistance, and competing visions of transformed futures -- Conclusion: climate justice and the politics of possibility
"The political ecology of climate change adaptation is shaped by longer histories of development and agrarian change. In coastal Bangladesh, competing visions of this history and of desirable development trajectories under climate change among practitioners, scientists, and local residents shape different possibilities for the future"--
9781501759185 9781501759178
2021011480
Climatic changes--Political aspects--Bangladesh.
Climatic changes--Economic aspects--Bangladesh.
Climatic changes--Social aspects--Bangladesh.
Climatic changes--Political aspects.
Climatic changes--Economic aspects.
Climatic changes--Social aspects.
Electronic Books.
QC903 / .T474 2021
Threatening dystopias the global politics of climate change adaptation in Bangladesh Kasia Paprocki - 1 online resource illustrations, maps - Cornell series on land: new perspectives in territory, development, and environment .
"Sluttish, careless, rotting abundance": prehistories of a climate dystopia -- Threatening dystopias: development and adaptation regimes -- Opportunity/crisis: knowledge production and the politics of uncertainty -- The social life of climate science: circulations of knowledge and uncertainty in development practice -- Autopsy of a village: agrarian change after the shrimp boom -- "We have come this far, we cannot retreat": adaptation, resistance, and competing visions of transformed futures -- Conclusion: climate justice and the politics of possibility
"The political ecology of climate change adaptation is shaped by longer histories of development and agrarian change. In coastal Bangladesh, competing visions of this history and of desirable development trajectories under climate change among practitioners, scientists, and local residents shape different possibilities for the future"--
9781501759185 9781501759178
2021011480
Climatic changes--Political aspects--Bangladesh.
Climatic changes--Economic aspects--Bangladesh.
Climatic changes--Social aspects--Bangladesh.
Climatic changes--Political aspects.
Climatic changes--Economic aspects.
Climatic changes--Social aspects.
Electronic Books.
QC903 / .T474 2021