{"product_id":"delta-futures-time-territory-and-capture-on-a-climate-frontier-paperback","title":"Delta Futures: Time, Territory, and Capture on a Climate Frontier - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJason Cons\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eDelta Futures\u003c\/i\u003e explores the competing visions of the future that are crowding into the Bengal Delta's imperiled present and vying for control of its ecologically vulnerable terrain. In Bangladesh's southwest, development programs that imagine the delta as a security threat unfold on the same ground as initiatives that frame the delta as a conservation zone and as projects that see the delta's rivers and ports as engines for industrial growth. Jason Cons explores how these competing futures are being brought to life: how they are experienced, understood, and contested by those who live and work in the delta, and the often surprising entanglements they engender--between dredgers and embankments, tigers and tiger prawns, fishermen and forest bandits, and more. These future visions produce the delta as a \"climate frontier,\" a zone where opportunity, expropriation, and risk in the present are increasingly framed in relation to disparate visions of the delta's climate-affected future.\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJason Cons's ethnography of Bangladesh's Sundarbans is filled with fascinating insights into the multiple and often contradictory entanglements of global warming, crime, politics, development, and projected 'climate solutions.' This important work presents a detailed, ground-level portrait of the region's ongoing transformation, examining the ways in which climate change, economic uncertainty, and historical legacies are shaping its future. Amitav Ghosh, author of \u003ci\u003eSmoke and Ashes: Opium's Hidden Histories\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Both synoptic and ethnographic, \u003ci\u003eDelta Futures\u003c\/i\u003e illustrates how the Bengal Delta and its inhabitants are being 'captured' by particular actors and imaginations, struggling to navigate the 'siltscape' with ever smaller margins between climate frontier futures. A very powerful book.\"--Franz Krause, author of \u003ci\u003eThinking Like a River: An Anthropology of Water and Its Uses along the Kemi River, Northern Finland\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"In this creative and original work, Cons makes the reader think more closely about how climate change is remaking a place that could be considered a 'sentinel space' for the planetary crisis, and how people are living through it.\"--Nayanika Mathur, author of \u003ci\u003eCrooked Cats: Beastly Encounters in the Anthropocene\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJason Cons\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin and author of \u003ci\u003eSensitive Space: Fragmented Territory at the India-Bangladesh Border\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 210\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.63 x 8.9 x 5.98 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 04, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52709935284531,"sku":"9780520414181","price":69.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/MZ2MthVA1j9780520414181.webp?v=1763477628","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/delta-futures-time-territory-and-capture-on-a-climate-frontier-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}