Authors
Siri H Eriksen, Andrea J Nightingale, Hallie Eakin
Publication date
2015/11/1
Journal
Global environmental change
Volume
35
Pages
523-533
Publisher
Pergamon
Description
This paper is motivated by a concern that adaptation and vulnerability research suffer from an under-theorization of the political mechanisms of social change and the processes that serve to reproduce vulnerability over time and space. We argue that adaptation is a socio-political process that mediates how individuals and collectives deal with multiple and concurrent environmental and social changes. We propose that applying concepts of subjectivity, knowledges and authority to the analysis of adaptation focuses attention on this socio-political process. Drawing from vulnerability, adaptation, political ecology and social theory literatures, we explain how power is reproduced or contested in adaptation practice through these three concepts. We assert that climate change adaptation processes have the potential to constitute as well as contest authority, subjectivity and knowledge, thereby opening up or closing down …
Scholar articles
SH Eriksen, AJ Nightingale, H Eakin - Global environmental change, 2015