Threatening dystopias the global politics of climate change adaptation in Bangladesh / Kasia Paprocki.
| Author/creator | Paprocki, Kasia author. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication | Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2021. |
| Copyright Date | ©2021 |
| Description | 1 online resource (xiii, 254 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available |
| Subjects |
| Series | Cornell series on land: new perspectives in territory, development, and environment Cornell series on land. ^A1457915 |
| 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 |
| Abstract | "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 shape different possibilities for the future"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Language | In English. |
| Source of description | Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 30, 2021). |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Paprocki, Kasia Threatening dystopias Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2021 9781501759154 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2021011480 |
| ISBN | 9781501759185 electronic book |
| ISBN | 1501759183 electronic book |
| ISBN | 9781501759178 electronic book |
| ISBN | 1501759175 electronic book |
| ISBN | hardcover |
| ISBN | hardcover |
| ISBN | paperback |
| ISBN | paperback |
| Standard identifier# | 10.1515/9781501759178 |
| Stock number | 22573/ctv1j3rcsz JSTOR |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |