Threatening dystopias : the global politics of climate change adaptation in Bangladesh /

"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 shap...

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Main Author: Paprocki, Kasia (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press 2021.
Series:Cornell series on land.
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Table of Contents:
  • "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