Delta Futures: Time, Territory, and Capture on a Climate Frontier - Couverture souple

Cons, Jason

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0520414187 ISBN 13 : 9780520414181

Editeur : University of California Press, 2025

Synopsis

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Delta Futures explores the competing visions of the future that are crowding into the Bengal Delta's imperiled present and vying for control of its ecologically vulnerable terrain. In Bangladesh's southwest, development programs that imagine the delta as a security threat unfold on the same ground as initiatives that frame the delta as a conservation zone and as projects that see the delta's rivers and ports as engines for industrial growth. Jason Cons explores how these competing futures are being brought to life: how they are experienced, understood, and contested by those who live and work in the delta, and the often surprising entanglements they engender--between dredgers and embankments, tigers and tiger prawns, fishermen and forest bandits, and more. These future visions produce the delta as a "climate frontier," a zone where opportunity, expropriation, and risk in the present are increasingly framed in relation to disparate visions of the delta's climate-affected future.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Jason Cons is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin and author of Sensitive Space: Fragmented Territory at the India-Bangladesh Border.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of California Press
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0520414187
• ISBN 13: 9780520414181
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 210
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• Personne responsable: non disponible