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Delta Temporalities: Choked and Tangled Futures in the Sundarbans

Cons, Jason

Ethnos, 2023-03, Vol.88 (2), p.308-329 [Periódico revisado por pares]

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Delta Temporalities: Choked and Tangled Futures in the Sundarbans
Autor: Cons, Jason
Assuntos: Anthropocene ; chokepoints ; Climate change ; Conservation ; deltas ; Ecology ; Economic conditions ; Economic development ; Infrastructure ; Optimism ; Rivers ; Temporality
É parte de: Ethnos, 2023-03, Vol.88 (2), p.308-329
Descrição: This paper offers an ethnographic engagement with the present and futures of Bangladesh's southwest delta. The southwest - which houses the Sundarbans, the world's largest remaining mangrove forest - is at once profoundly vulnerable to climate change and a site critical to Bangladesh's economic development. It figures thus both as a space of optimistic industrial growth and planetary threat. I explore what I call delta temporalities - the dissonant and possibly incommensurate imaginations of the future, and more importantly the projects seeking to bring them about, that proliferate in and shape the delta's fragile ecology in the present. Tracing tensions between conservation initiatives, dredging projects that attempt to keep rivers flowing for shipping and transportation, and new industrial and energy infrastructure projects, this paper reveals how and why the southwest - and deltas more broadly - have become key chokepoints of the Anthropocene, zones where the future itself becomes blocked and the present imperilled.
Editor: Stockholm: Routledge
Idioma: Inglês;Francês;Alemão;Sueco

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