Weapons of the vulnerable? A review of popular resistance to climate adaptation
Climate adaptation is not a neutral or apolitical process, but one that ignites social resistance. Government responses to risks of floods, droughts, or hurricanes – even those using a language of participation – might follow historical development pathways, strive to maintain the status quo, and di...
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ftulundlup:oai:lup.lub.lu.se:abc85705-9ec4-4247-bea1-5beef29b9c64 2023-10-09T21:51:34+02:00 Weapons of the vulnerable? A review of popular resistance to climate adaptation Brink, Ebba Vargas, Ana Maria Boyd, Emily 2023 https://lup.lub.lu.se/record/abc85705-9ec4-4247-bea1-5beef29b9c64 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2023.102656 eng eng Elsevier https://lup.lub.lu.se/record/abc85705-9ec4-4247-bea1-5beef29b9c64 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2023.102656 scopus:85149882685 Global Environmental Change; 80, no 102656 (2023) ISSN: 0959-3780 Social Sciences Interdisciplinary sociological resistance climate change adaptation vulnerability adaptation pathways contributiontojournal/article info:eu-repo/semantics/article text 2023 ftulundlup https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2023.102656 2023-09-20T22:29:05Z Climate adaptation is not a neutral or apolitical process, but one that ignites social resistance. Government responses to risks of floods, droughts, or hurricanes – even those using a language of participation – might follow historical development pathways, strive to maintain the status quo, and directly or indirectly serve elite interests. Little attention has been paid to how people defy or resist top-down adaptation processes, overtly or covertly, in particular cultural, historical, and legal contexts. Drawing on sociological thought on popular resistance, this paper systematises research on people’s resistance to climate adaptation by scrutinising the sites, repertoires, and consequences of such resistance. We identified overt and covert resistance in 56 scientific adaptation articles, which concentrated on 5 ‘sites’ of resistance: Rural livelihoods, Urban informal settlements, Islands, First Nations, and Institutional landscapes. The findings imply that resistance to adaptation occurs globally, and not least in the context of relocation processes and participatory adaptation. We show how a resistance lens can help understand contemporary political behaviours, shed light on dynamic and compound vulnerability, and’unlock’ more context-sensitive and even transformative adaptation. Meanwhile, resistance and popular movements are not only progressive, and there might be conceptual barriers to moving from resistance to transformation or reconciling resistance with actions by or with the state. Article in Journal/Newspaper First Nations Lund University Publications (LUP) Global Environmental Change 80 102656 |
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Climate adaptation is not a neutral or apolitical process, but one that ignites social resistance. Government responses to risks of floods, droughts, or hurricanes – even those using a language of participation – might follow historical development pathways, strive to maintain the status quo, and directly or indirectly serve elite interests. Little attention has been paid to how people defy or resist top-down adaptation processes, overtly or covertly, in particular cultural, historical, and legal contexts. Drawing on sociological thought on popular resistance, this paper systematises research on people’s resistance to climate adaptation by scrutinising the sites, repertoires, and consequences of such resistance. We identified overt and covert resistance in 56 scientific adaptation articles, which concentrated on 5 ‘sites’ of resistance: Rural livelihoods, Urban informal settlements, Islands, First Nations, and Institutional landscapes. The findings imply that resistance to adaptation occurs globally, and not least in the context of relocation processes and participatory adaptation. We show how a resistance lens can help understand contemporary political behaviours, shed light on dynamic and compound vulnerability, and’unlock’ more context-sensitive and even transformative adaptation. Meanwhile, resistance and popular movements are not only progressive, and there might be conceptual barriers to moving from resistance to transformation or reconciling resistance with actions by or with the state. |
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Weapons of the vulnerable? A review of popular resistance to climate adaptation |
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