Description: Engineering Vulnerability : In Pursuit of Climate Adaptation, Hardcover by Vaughn, Sarah E., ISBN 1478015489, ISBN-13 9781478015482, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US 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.
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Book Title: Engineering Vulnerability : In Pursuit of Climate Adaptation
Number of Pages: 272 Pages
Publication Name: Engineering Vulnerability : in Pursuit of Climate Adaptation
Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication Year: 2022
Item Height: 0.7 in
Subject: Environmental Conservation & Protection, Caribbean & West Indies / General, Physics / General
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 17.6 Oz
Author: Sarah E. Vaughn
Item Length: 9 in
Subject Area: Nature, Science, History
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Hardcover
