In Engineering Vulnerability 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 in the lives of the world's most vulnerable. Her case
study is Guyana in the aftermath of the 2005 catastrophic flooding
that ravaged the country's Atlantic coastal plain. The country's
ensuing engineering projects reveal the contingencies of climate
adaptation and the capacity of flooding to shape Guyanese
expectations about racial (in)equality. Analyzing the coproduction
of race and vulnerability, Vaughn details why climate adaptation
has implications for how we understand the past and the continued
human settlement of a place. Such understandings become
particularly apparent not only through experts' and ordinary
citizens' disputes over resources but in their attention to the
ethical practice of technoscience over time. Approaching climate
adaptation this way, Vaughn exposes the generative openings as well
as gaps in racial thinking for theorizing climate action,
environmental justice, and, more broadly, future life on a warming
planet. Duke University Press Scholars of Color First Book Award
recipient
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