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Engineering Colonialism: Race, Class, And The Social History Of Flood Control In Guyana, Joshua Mullenite
Engineering Colonialism: Race, Class, And The Social History Of Flood Control In Guyana, Joshua Mullenite
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Overabundance and scarcity of water are global concerns. Across the world’s low-lying coastal plains, flooding brought on by sea level rise acts as an existential threat for a multitude of people and cultures while in desert (and increasingly non-desert) regions intensifying drought cycles do the same. In the decades to come, how people manage these threats will have important implications not only for individual and cultural survival, but also for questions of justice. Recent research on flooding and flood management probes the histories of survival, and adaptation in flood threatened regions for insights into emergent flood-related crises. However, scholars have …