Unruly waters: exploring the embodied dimension of an urban flood in Bangkok through materiality, affect and emotions

Q2 Social Sciences

Geographica Helvetica Pub Date : 2023-06-21 DOI:10.5194/gh-78-281-2023

Leonie Tuitjer

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Abstract

Abstract. Urban political ecology (UPE) has recently turned its attention to the embodied dimension of human–nature relations. In particular, within urban hydrological systems across the globe, the need to consider the emotional and bodily ways in which we connect to the ecologies of the city has been acknowledged. This paper joins such efforts and explores the flood experiences of a diverse group of Bangkokians during the 2011 inundation by drawing on three interconnected concepts: materiality, affect and emotion. Together they help us explore the intense experiences of Bangkokians during the flood and serve as theoretical tools to unpack the uncanny encounters between Bangkokians and the materiality of the flood. Thus, the paper attends to the socio-material forces that shaped the flooding event and contributes nuanced insights about the embodied experiences of floods within the delta city.

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无序的水域：通过物质性、情感和情感探索曼谷城市洪水的具体维度

摘要城市政治生态学（UPE）最近将注意力转向了人与自然关系的具体维度。特别是，在全球城市水文系统中，人们已经认识到，需要考虑我们与城市生态联系的情感和身体方式。本文结合这些努力，通过借鉴三个相互关联的概念：物质性、情感和情感，探讨了不同群体的曼谷人在2011年洪水期间的洪水经历。它们一起帮助我们探索Bangkokians在洪水期间的紧张经历，并作为理论工具来揭示Bangkokian人与洪水物质性之间的离奇遭遇。因此，本文关注了影响洪水事件的社会物质力量，并对三角洲城市洪水的具体经历提供了细致入微的见解。

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Geographica Helvetica Social Sciences-Anthropology

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1.90

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53 weeks

期刊介绍： Geographica Helvetica, the Swiss journal of geography, publishes contributions in all fields of geography as well as in related neighbouring disciplines. It is a multi-lingual journal, accepting articles in the three main Swiss languages, German, French, and Italian, as well as in English. It invites theoretical as well as empirical contributions. The journal welcomes contributions that specifically deal with empirical questions relating to Switzerland. The agenda of Geographica Helvetica is related to the specificity of Swiss geography as a meeting ground for different geographical traditions and languages (German, French, Italian and, more recently, a type of transnational, mainly English-speaking geography). The journal aims to become an ideal platform for the development of an informed, creative, and truly cosmopolitan geography. The journal will therefore provide space for cross-border theoretical debates around major thinkers – past and present – and the circulation of geographical ideas and concepts across Europe and beyond. The journal seeks to be a platform of debate also through innovative publication formats in its section "Interfaces", which publishes shorter interventions: reflection pieces on major thinkers as well as position papers (see manuscript types). Geographica Helvetica is promoted and supported by the following institutions: Swiss Academy of Sciences (SCNAT), Geographic and Ethnological Society of Zurich/Geographisch-Ethnographische Gesellschaft Zürich (GEGZ), and Swiss Association of Geography/Association Suisse de Géographie (ASG).