Middleton / Elmhirst / Chantavanich Living with Floods in a Mobile Southeast Asia

A Political Ecology of Vulnerability, Migration and Environmental Change
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-317-64516-0
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 216 Seiten

This volume contributes to a better understanding of the relationship between migration, vulnerability and resilience associated with flooding across diverse environmental, social and policy contexts in Southeast Asia. It challenges simple analyses of flooding as a singular driver of migration, and instead considers the ways in which floods figure in migration-based livelihoods and amongst already mobile populations.

The book sets out a conceptual framework based on a ‘mobile political ecology’ in which particular attention is paid to the multi-dimensionality, temporalities and geographies of vulnerability. Rather than simply emphasizing the capacities (or lack thereof) of individuals and households, the focus is on identifying factors that instigate, manage and perpetuate vulnerable populations and places: these include the socio-political dynamics of floods, flood hazards and risky environments, migration and migrant-based livelihoods, and the policy environments through which all of these take shape.

The book is organised around a series of tightly-argued empirical case studies from countries in the ASEAN region, where lives are marked by mobility and by floods associated with the region’s monsoonal climate. Specifically, these include Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam. Together, the chapters highlight critical policy questions around the governance of migration, institutionalized disaster response strategies and broader development agendas.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Middleton, Carl

Elmhirst, Rebecca J.

Elmhirst, Rebecca

Chantavanich, Supang

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: A Political Ecology of Flooding and Migration in Southeast Asia – Conceptualising Vulnerability, Security and Environmental Justice 2. Living with the Flood: Fishing, Farming, and Migration around Tonle Sap Lake, Cambodia 3. Living in a Vacuum: Migrants Looking for and Experiencing Floods in Myanmar 4. Navigating Identities and Spaces in Lao PDR: the Intersection of Flooding, Migration and Vulnerability 5. Living with, on, and against Floods: Socio-economic Adaptation of Three Rural Communities in Thailand’s Central Plain 6. The Growth of Floodway Settlements as Outcome of People’s Migration for Livelihoods and Housing in Metro Manila, Philippines 7. Responses to Flooding from the Locals’ and Migrants’ Perspectives in Hanoi 8. Vulnerability and Flooding in a City of Migrants: Contested Space, Ethnicity and Entitlement in Bandar Lampung, Indonesia 9. Vulnerabilities of the Locals and Migrants due to Flooding in Malaysia: A Case Study for Identifying Gaps for Better Management 10. Human-made Disaster and Urban Migration: Power Relations and Socio-political Dimension of the Urban and Semi-urban Communities Affected by 2011 Flood in Thailand 11. Conclusion: Towards a Mobile Political Ecology in Southeast Asia

Über Autor(innen)

Carl Middleton is a Lecturer in the Master of Arts in International Development Studies Program, Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand.

Rebecca Elmhirst is a Principal Lecturer in the School of Environment and Technology, University of Brighton, UK.

Supang Chantavanich is a Professor and Director of the Asian Research Center for Migration, Institute of Asian Studies, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand.