Promiscuous corroboration and climate change translation: A case study from the Marshall Islands

Rudiak-Gould, Peter

doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2011.09.011

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“…On the broadest scale, they show great diversity in the way different islands and groups understand, experience and view climate change. Our inevitable recommendation is to add to those before us (Hofmann & Lübken, 2015;Kelman, 2010;Lewis, 1990Lewis, , 2009Moncada et al, 2018) in calling for island scholarship to reject solipsism, and instead seek to understand the highly local and cultural perceptions, perspectives, and responses to climate change (Glantz, 1988;Hulme, 2016;Oliver-Smith, 1996;Rudiak-Gould, 2011.…”

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Small island perspectives on climate change

Walshe¹,

Stancioff²

2018

ISJ

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Islands and islanders are often misrepresented in the climate change discourse, oversimplifying their experiences and interactions with climate change. In reality, islands and islanders have far more complex relationships with climate change. This special thematic section presents eight papers that highlight local responses and localized impacts of climate change on islands, reiterating the importance of considering local community perspectives in small island contexts to overcome simplistic viewpoints. Such perceptions and perspectives are increasingly being recognized as offering a valuable contribution to climate change adaptation, particularly to counter the misrepresentation of small islands as vulnerable or passive, and the disregard for the fact that climate change is a global, as well as continual process. This special thematic section further demonstrates that island research is well placed to address the disproportionate concentration of perspectives and opinions of climate change from the Global North and adds to the calls for increased efforts to give a voice to island communities of all kinds.

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Small island perspectives on climate change

Walshe¹,

Stancioff²

2018

ISJ

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“…Despite the interviewer's efforts to emphasize that the interviews were going to be about climate change, participants were still using these three words interchangeably during the interviews. Hence, participants from this survey were also displaying 'promiscuous corroboration' (Rudiak-Gould, 2012) like in the case of the Marshall Island interviewees. We believe that for this reason, none of the participants were able to articulate the causes clearly and most admitted they lacked an understanding of the real causes and physical processes of climate change.…”

Section: Misconception Of Climate Change and Climate Change Vulnerabimentioning

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Climate change perception of the dive tourism industry in Koh Tao island, Thailand

Tapsuwan

Rongrongmuang²

2015

Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism

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“…A third meaning of climate change is that is stands for a lost nature. Bill McKibbin's best‐selling book The End of Nature (McKibbin ) was an early and prominent articulation of this narrative with respect to climate change, and it is a narrative which has deep resonance across many cultures (Rudiak‐Gould ; Haluza‐Delay ). The Edenic myth is a lament for a lost order and stability in a natural (and maybe God‐given) world.…”

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(Still) Disagreeing About Climate Change: Which Way Forward?

Hulme¹

2015

Zygon

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Why does climate change continue to be a forceful idea which divides people? What does this tell us about science, about culture, and about the future? Despite disagreement, how might the idea of climate change nevertheless be used creatively? In this essay I develop my investigation of these questions using four lines of argument. First, the future risks associated with human‐caused climate change are severely underdetermined by science. Scientific predictions of future climates are poorly constrained; even more so the consequences of such climates for evolving human socio‐technological and natural ecosystems. Second, I argue that to act politically in the world, people have to pass judgments on the facts of science; facts do not speak for themselves. Third, because these judgments are different, the strategic goals of policy interventions developed in response to risks associated with future climate change are inevitably multiple and conflicting. Finally, reconciling and achieving diverse goals requires political contestation. “Moving forward” on climate change then becomes a task of investing in the discursive and procedural preconditions for an agonistic politics to work constructively, to enable ways of implementing policies when people disagree.

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Promiscuous corroboration and climate change translation: A case study from the Marshall Islands

Cited by 109 publications

References 25 publications

Small island perspectives on climate change

Small island perspectives on climate change

Climate change perception of the dive tourism industry in Koh Tao island, Thailand

(Still) Disagreeing About Climate Change: Which Way Forward?

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