Table of Contents

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

About the Author

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.