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A timely ethnography of how Indonesia's coastal dwellers inhabit
the "chronic present" of a slow-motion natural disaster Ice caps
are melting, seas are rising, and densely populated cities
worldwide are threatened by floodwaters, especially in Southeast
Asia. Building on Borrowed Time is a timely and powerful
ethnography of how people in Semarang, Indonesia, on the north
coast of Java, are dealing with this global warming-driven
existential challenge. In addition to antiflooding infrastructure
breaking down, vast areas of cities like Semarang and Jakarta are
rapidly sinking, affecting the very foundations of urban life:
toxic water oozes through the floors of houses, bridges are
submerged, traffic is interrupted. As Lukas Ley shows, the
residents of Semarang are constantly engaged in maintaining their
homes and streets, trying to live through a slow-motion disaster
shaped by the interacting temporalities of infrastructural failure,
ecological deterioration, and urban development. He casts this
predicament through the temporal lens of a "meantime," a managerial
response that means a constant enduring of the present rather than
progress toward a better future-a "chronic present." Building on
Borrowed Time takes us to a place where a flood crisis has already
arrived-where everyday residents are not waiting for the effects of
climate change but are in fact already living with it-and shows
that life in coastal Southeast Asia is defined not by the
temporality of climate science but by the lived experience of tidal
flooding.
A timely ethnography of how Indonesia's coastal dwellers inhabit
the "chronic present" of a slow-motion natural disaster Ice caps
are melting, seas are rising, and densely populated cities
worldwide are threatened by floodwaters, especially in Southeast
Asia. Building on Borrowed Time is a timely and powerful
ethnography of how people in Semarang, Indonesia, on the north
coast of Java, are dealing with this global warming-driven
existential challenge. In addition to antiflooding infrastructure
breaking down, vast areas of cities like Semarang and Jakarta are
rapidly sinking, affecting the very foundations of urban life:
toxic water oozes through the floors of houses, bridges are
submerged, traffic is interrupted. As Lukas Ley shows, the
residents of Semarang are constantly engaged in maintaining their
homes and streets, trying to live through a slow-motion disaster
shaped by the interacting temporalities of infrastructural failure,
ecological deterioration, and urban development. He casts this
predicament through the temporal lens of a "meantime," a managerial
response that means a constant enduring of the present rather than
progress toward a better future-a "chronic present." Building on
Borrowed Time takes us to a place where a flood crisis has already
arrived-where everyday residents are not waiting for the effects of
climate change but are in fact already living with it-and shows
that life in coastal Southeast Asia is defined not by the
temporality of climate science but by the lived experience of tidal
flooding.
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