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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 scientific reports, public discourse, literature, and
other cultural forms, observing the impact of these portrayals on
the ways people both understand and respond to complicated
environmental disasters. The author argues that power is expressed
and contested in every representation of a disaster and its
stakeholders. This book develops terminologies and perspectives
that not only probe the social and ecological conditions that make
disaster possible but also foster more effective and equitable
strategies for adapting to a world fraught with hazards.
Interdisciplinary in nature, this book makes a significant
contribution to the fields of green cultural studies, disaster
studies, science and technology studies and studies of political
ecology in Southeast Asia.
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 scientific reports, public discourse, literature, and
other cultural forms, observing the impact of these portrayals on
the ways people both understand and respond to complicated
environmental disasters. The author argues that power is expressed
and contested in every representation of a disaster and its
stakeholders. This book develops terminologies and perspectives
that not only probe the social and ecological conditions that make
disaster possible but also foster more effective and equitable
strategies for adapting to a world fraught with hazards.
Interdisciplinary in nature, this book makes a significant
contribution to the fields of green cultural studies, disaster
studies, science and technology studies and studies of political
ecology in Southeast Asia.
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