Conclusions: climate change adaptation policy research and its role in understanding climate change

Keskitalo, E. Carina H.; Preston, B. L.

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“…Both approaches have limitations, with feminist and postcolonial scholars providing extensive critiques of universalist approaches seeking transcendental knowledge (Nightingale, 2016). Approaches to climate change rooted in global climate science can suffer from "climate reductionism" (Hulme, 2008), thereby underplaying the complexity, contingency, and the contested nature of adaptation options (Keskitalo and Preston, 2019). Similarly, the search for adaptation policy solutions with universal application is fraught.…”

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Five tensions in climate adaptation research

Rickards,

Alexandra,

Denham

et al. 2024

Front. Clim.

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Climate change adaptation is a maturing field of research imbued with many complexities and tensions. In this article, we outline five tensions that we observe in our own adaptation research. These are between: adaptation as a research topic and practical challenge; uncertainty in adaptation research and decision-makers' desire for certainty; the global scope of adaptation research and its highly context-specific nature; the newness of climate adaptation research and its push to address old problems; adaptation as a specialization and the need for all researchers to engage. Our aim is to encourage critical discussion and reflection among researchers about how adaptation research is positioned within, shaped by and influences social and institutional settings. Given its emplaced character, adaptation research needs to attend to its content and context.

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Section: Five Tensions In Adaptation Researchmentioning

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Five tensions in climate adaptation research

Rickards,

Alexandra,

Denham

et al. 2024

Front. Clim.

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“…by drawing on political ecology, see Leichenko and O'Brien, 2008;Taylor, 2015;Eriksen et al, 2015), they have scrutinised the discursive processes which underlie them (e.g. by drawing on biopolitics/governmentality studies, see Oppermann, 2011;Cannon and Müller-Mahn, 2010;Andersson and Keskitalo, 2018), they have considered social, cultural and institutional barriers to effective adaptation (Eisenack et al, 2014;O'Brien and Hochachka, 2010), and they have argued for more ontological pluralism in order to open up for new imaginations (Keskitalo and Preston, 2019;Nightingale et al, 2019;Nyamwanza and Bhatasara, 2015). Yet so far, adaptation research-even the more critical strands-have largely ignored the role of human emotions and social passions (see Nightingale et al, 2022 for the best exception).…”

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Exploring the affective dimension of climate adaptation discourse: Political fantasies in German adaptation policy

Remling

2023

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

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Critical adaptation research has documented how climate change adaptation responses largely tend to maintain rather than change the status quo. Building and expanding on these literatures, this article draws on poststructuralist discourse theory, specifically its notion of political fantasy, to explore further how these prevalent techno-managerial approaches to adaptation operate and what it might be that makes them seem appealing. Based on an exploratory, qualitative analysis of how affect (emotions) and fantasy are at play in the German government discourse on adaptation, the article discerns four specific forms that fantasy takes in official documents: (1) fantasies of control and preparedness, (2) fantasies of objectivity and reason, (3) fantasies of a shared sense of place, and (4) fantasies about ‘the good life’. These support the common narrative for how to adapt to climate change in the German context – primarily in a way that does not challenge or change the social order. The findings show that German adaptation policy is sustained and legitimised by fantasmatic elements that seek to speak to a-rational desires and provide important affective anchor points for collective identification, especially those evoking a shared sense of place. In other words, the German adaptation policy discourse is not constructed only at the level of rational argumentation, but very much so on the level of affect. In demonstrating this, the article makes the case for placing political fantasy into the analytical and theoretical vocabulary within critical adaptation research.

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Conclusions: climate change adaptation policy research and its role in understanding climate change

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Five tensions in climate adaptation research

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Exploring the affective dimension of climate adaptation discourse: Political fantasies in German adaptation policy

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