Article ID: CBB114308689

Bangkok Precipitated: Cloudbursts, Sentient Urbanity, and Emergent Atmospheres (2021)

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Jakkrit Sangkhamanee (Author)


East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal
Volume: 15
Issue: 2
Pages: 153-172


Publication Date: 2021
Edition Details: Special Issue: Material Itineraries: Southeast Asian Urban Transformations
Language: English

Bangkok often floods. This paper examines the effects of city deluge as a result of urban assemblage: complex, distributed and disjunctive relations between the city’s amphibious ecologies and landscapes, its dilapidated drainage infrastructure, its varied transport systems, its weather patterns, and the movements of people. During cloudbursts, many of Bangkok’s missing masses become plainly and frustratingly, visible. Using ethnographic description as a “material diagnostics,” I explore how irritated, perturbed, urban atmospheres emerge out of disjunctive infrastructural constellations. Cloudbursts make perceptible such atmospheres as forms of sentient urbanism, in which distributed sensations are generated by intersecting material itineraries moving across multiple assemblages. As affects and agitations move from street level to social media, rain precipitates matters of urgent, urban concern and critique.

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Article Casper Bruun Jensen (2021) Material Itineraries: Southeast Asian Urban Transformations. East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal (pp. 124-134). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Elmhirst, Rebecca
Prince K Guma
Aiduan Borrion
Claire Pelgrims
Irlinger, Mathias
Tatiana Acevedo-Guerrero
Concepts
Infrastructure
Cities and towns
Technoscience; science and technology studies
Floods
Mobility
Disasters; catastrophes
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
20th century, late
19th century
17th century
14th century
Places
Thailand
Germany
Cambodia
Africa
Havana, Cuba
Barranquilla
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