Indonesia and the politics of disaster power and representation in Indonesia's mud volcano
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, th...
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New York, UK
Routledge
2017
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| Series: | Routledge contemporary Southeast Asia series
83 |
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Table of Contents:
- The trigger debate and the politics of inquiry : was it drilling or an earthquake that caused the mud volcano?
- The disaster management apparatus : managing disaster and opposition
- Knowledge, power, and rift : bending information networks
- The victims : testimony and the politics of environmental justice
- Broadening the field of contestation : representing the mudflow in folklore, literature, and public performance
- New landscapes : composing and contesting Mud Island
- Epilogue : fighting for the future of the mud volcano