Modernist Infrastructure and the Vital Systems Security of Water
Singapore's Pluripotent Climate Futures
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2428296 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jerome Whitington (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 415-441 |
| Publication date | 2016-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Public Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0899-2363 • E-ISSN: 1527-8018 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/08992363-3427511 |
| OpenAlex | W2346965402 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 18 |
| References cited | 34 |
Singapore climate change adaptation planning for water infrastructure is assessed against the concept of "vital security systems." Cast against the historicity of water planning and postcolonial urbanism, water supply, coastal protection, and flood control are understood in terms of vigilance, emergency, prediction, and control. It is argued that climate adaptation planning relies on a naturalistic understanding of predictable, linear transformations in base climatic variables and thus fails to take into consideration the "pluripotency" of climate futures-that is, the inherent unpredictability of nonlinear transformations that arise in the conjunction of human and nonhuman systems
Historicity (philosophy · Socioeconomic Development in Asia · Water Governance and Infrastructure · Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies
Geographies of storage
Water Infrastructures: The Making and Maintenance of Material and Organisational Connections
Waiting for future mineral resources in the Singaporean Deep-sea
Dirty Landscapes
From Edenic Apocalypse to Gardens against Eden
Here Comes the Sun
Futures on Dry Ground
Rivers of the Anthropocene
Urban smart microgrids
Exploring urban verticality during the 2011 flood in Bangkok, Thailand
A ‘City in Nature’ and its porcine interlopers
Re-thinking urban infrastructures as spaces of learning
Holding water for the city
Some Islands Will Rise
Staging Climate Security
Disappearing Mangroves
The Anthropology of Water
The Crisis in Crisis
Risk Society
Ecologies of Expertise
Introduction
Political Machines
Disrupted Cities
Infrastructural Lives
The unpublished manuscript
The Singapore Water Story
Worlding Cities
Michel Foucault , Security, Territory, Population
Manufacturing space
Government by experiment? Global cities and the governing of climate change
Producing vertical territory
Risk society
Security That Matters
Planning the resilient city
Art in the Anthropocene
Biopolitics and Adaptation
Signals Come and Go
A New Urban Dispositif? Governing Life in an Age of Climate Change
Distributed Preparedness
Not Depoliticized but Ideologically Successful
Fingerprint, bellwether, model event
Vital Systems Security
The Politics and Poetics of Infrastructure
Carbon as a Metric of the Human
Chaotic Climate Change and Security1
Enacting catastrophe
| Unique citing works | 18 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2026 (10) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 17 |