Preparing for Rain
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: Accra’s rainy season is accompanied by flooding every year, and residents, especially those living by the waterways, anticipate flooding events with significant anxiety. In the news and in daily conversation warnings are abound, and people share memories of flooding events from the past. Residents often seek to prevent disasters by taking infrastructural matters into their own hands. They construct flood barriers, using sandbags, cement, concrete and rubble left over after construction. In this article I discuss these infrastructural manifestations of anxiety in Accra’s waterways.
Source: Roadsides
Author: Afra Foli
Language: English
Subfield: Global and Planetary Change
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4404539198