Responsibilisation for Adaptation

Sinevaara-Niskanen, Heidi; Tennberg, Monica

doi:10.1007/978-94-007-3843-0_7

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“…According to Rose (1999: 142), governing through communities fosters and activates the existing bonds and strengths in a community and uses the two to engender desired actions. In the AHDR, communities are relied on and made responsible for development and (its) sustainability (see also Sinevaara-Niskanen and Tennberg 2012).…”

Section: Tackling the Complexity Of Sustainabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In Fraser's words (2003: 169), it is the governmentality of ‘flexibilization’ that manifests itself in the vocabulary of adaptation. Subjects and social entities are expected to relocate themselves and internalise ‘the horizon of no long term’ (see also Sinevaara-Niskanen and Tennberg 2012). The AHDR concludes with the need for flexibility: Nor is climate change the only threat to Arctic societies and cultures.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Vocabularies for human development: Arctic politics and the power of knowledge

Sinevaara-Niskanen¹

2014

Polar Record

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The Arctic Council (AC) has been accorded the status of knowledge holder and knowledge provider for the Arctic region. This paper probes the broader definition-making power of Arctic knowledge, challenging the common notion that this knowledge is value neutral. It argues that attention should be paid to the ways in which power is exercised in, and though, the various reports and assessments published under the auspices of the AC. The specific focus of the paper is human development and gender as an aspect of that development. The research analyses the Arctic Human Development Report (AHDR) in order to examine the ways in which knowledge defines human development and its agents in the Arctic. The paper draws on Foucault-inspired and feminist approaches to analyse three vocabularies of rule in particular: strength of the community, vulnerability and the need for adaptation. These vocabularies are coexistent and share an emphasis on communities. Yet, questions of gender seldom figure in them, a lack of salience that reveals the power of the partiality of knowledge. The politics of knowledge operate by placing in the foreground only certain accounts of Arctic development.

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Section: Tackling the Complexity Of Sustainabilitymentioning

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Vocabularies for human development: Arctic politics and the power of knowledge

Sinevaara-Niskanen¹

2014

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“…In our critical view, the vocabulary of adaptation is not neutral: it empowers indigenous peoples to act in environmental politics but simultaneously imposes on them expectations that they will adapt and take responsibility in adapting (see also Sinevaara‐Niskanen and Tennberg :133–135 on adaptation and scattered responsibility). By probing the question of adaptation, we do not question adaptation per se, but claim that the repeated and permeating vocabulary of adaptation is a practice of governance.…”

Section: Constructing Agencies: Arguments For Participation and Respomentioning

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At the Crossroads of Autonomy and Essentialism: Indigenous Peoples in International Environmental Politics

Lindroth

Sinevaara-Niskanen

2013

Int Polit Sociol

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Indigenous peoples are often perceived as custodians of nature owing to their close relationship with their environment and their nature‐based livelihoods. This paper investigates the kinds of environmental agencies that are constructed for, and by, indigenous peoples within the United Nations (UN) Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (PF) and the Arctic Council. The particular focus of this research is the issue of responsibility. The article brings together empirical materials from the two forums and engages with them using Foucault‐inspired approaches. We offer a critical discussion of indigenous peoples' environmental agency in international politics, addressing the need to problematize representations of indigenous agency that to date have been largely unchallenged in both the practice and study of international politics. We identify three perspectives through which the environmental agency of indigenous peoples is validated and justified: having particular knowledge, being stakeholders, and having a close relationship with nature. Certain kinds of expectations are inscribed in each of these perspectives; responsibility becomes intertwined with agency.

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The Neoliberal Embrace of Resilient Indigeneity

Lindroth

Sinevaara-Niskanen

2017

Global Politics and Its Violent Care for Indigeneity

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Responsibilisation for Adaptation

Cited by 5 publications

References 12 publications

Vocabularies for human development: Arctic politics and the power of knowledge

Vocabularies for human development: Arctic politics and the power of knowledge

At the Crossroads of Autonomy and Essentialism: Indigenous Peoples in International Environmental Politics

The Neoliberal Embrace of Resilient Indigeneity

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