Indonesia and the Politics of Disaster: Power and Representation in Indonesia's Mud Volcano

ISBN-13: 9780367889654 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 190 str.

Phillip Drake

Opis

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 scie

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.