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... The chapter recounts fieldwork at the Hinsdale Wave Laboratory at Oregon State University, home of the world's largest tsunami simulation basin. It is concerned with what wave science looks like in the lab as scientists make scaled-down replicas of real-world waves. Wave tanks, using water...

... Chapter 4 explores iterative productions of the Sri Lankan nation through the visual culture of the tsunami and the war. Specifically it shows how national politics are continually made and unmade through the production, use, reuse, and distribution of images of the tsunami and the war. While...

... Based on eighteen months of fieldwork spanning from 2008 to 2017, Disaster Nationalism follows national disaster management projects in Sri Lanka after the 2004 tsunami and through the end of the civil war, shedding light on disaster policies, state power dynamics, and national security...

... and sociopolitical anxiety. The chapter’s first section explores the experiences of those living in a temporary post-tsunami housing scheme while awaiting newly built tsunami homes—a form of endurance called “slow life.” The second section presents a series of text messages distributed by the Sri Lankan government...

... marine ecosystems and fisheries and may cause the demise of coral reefs by century's end. Melting soil permafrost destabilizes slopes adjacent to a water body, leading to possible landslides and tsunamis. Such tsunamis threaten small coastal villages in the Arctic. Warmer temperatures result in larger...

... to the Sri Lankan government’s disaster management practices after the tsunami. It highlights a new dimension of national governance and state power through disaster nationalism while also building on a longer history of institutionalized exclusion and Sinhala Buddhist majoritarian politics and nationalism...