Building on Borrowed Time: Rising Seas and Failing Infrastructure in Semarang

by Lukas Ley

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1517908884
• ISBN13: 9781517908881
• Release Date: November 2021
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.4"