1st Edition
Indonesia and the Politics of Disaster Power and Representation in Indonesia�s Mud Volcano
Introduction
1. The Trigger Debate and the Politics of Inquiry: Was it Drilling or an Earthquake that Caused the Mud Volcano?
1a. Contesting the Name: Is it Sidoarjo’s or Lapindo’s Mudflow?
2. The Disaster Management Apparatus: Managing Disaster and Opposition
2a. Recent Trends Shaping Indonesia’s Political Economy of Disaster
3. Knowledge, Power, and Rift: Bending Information Networks
3a. Bakrie Mysteries
4. The Victims: Testimony and the Politics of Environmental Justice
4a. Breaking the Wall
5. Broadening the Field of Contestation: Representing the Mudflow in Folklore, Literature, and Public Performance
5a. Humor and Disaster
6. New Landscapes: Composing and Contesting Mud Island
Epilogue: Fighting for the Future of the Mud Volcano
Biography
Phillip Drake is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Kansas, USA. His teaching and research focuses on environmental literature and rhetoric, science and technology studies, Marxism, animal studies, and environmental politics.
