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call for papers for a RGS-IBG session organised by Sophie Blackburn and myself, on the politics and power structures that govern adaptation responses and emergent spaces of resistance being forged amid those. We are pleased to confirm that we have been granted
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<span style="margin:0px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:black">*Call for Papers for RGS-IBG Annual Conference, London, 2nd-6th September 2020*</span><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"></span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:black">Session organisers: Dr Sophie Blackburn (Oxford Brookes University) and Lara Langston (King’s College London)</span></p>
<p style="font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;color:black">Since gaining widespread traction and focus in the early 2000s (Eriksen and Naess, 2003), adaptation has evolved from being
considered a technical and managerial challenge focused on responding to climate change impacts (Godfrey-Wood and Naess, 2016), to one connected to vulnerability through the rooting of adaptation as a social process. Effective adaptation is now understood
as dovetailing substantially with the objectives and mechanisms of sustainable and inclusive development (Fankhauser and Schmidt-Traub, 2011; Oppenheimer, 2013; Mikulewicz, 2018). There is growing recognition of the need to place power and politics at the
centre of adaptation research, both to challenge apolitical conceptions of climate impacts on social, economic and environmental landscapes, and to lay bare the capacity for adaptation to either reinforce or resist existing regimes of power (Pelling, 2011).
With adaptation conceived as a fundamentally political process, the analytical imperative must now be on how the discourses and practices of adaptation are being steered and limited by existing system logics (Andersson and Keskitalo, 2018). Only through such
research can opportunities for resistance and transformation become known.<span style="margin:0px"> </span></span></p>
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<p style="font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;color:black">This session invites contributions exploring how adaptation to climate change operates as a channel to reinforce (or resist)
pre-existing power relations, and the dimensions of power that are produced and mobilised through adaptation programming, policy and thinking. Given the overlaps between adaptation, resilience, disaster risk reduction (DRR) and transformation programming and
discourse, we are open to contributions focusing empirically on any of these practice spaces.<span style="margin:0px"> </span></span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;color:black">- Local or national power structures manifest in particular modes of adaptation governance;<span style="margin:0px"> </span><br>
- Modes or practices of resistance against mainstream adaptation practice, discourse, or policy; <br>
- How adaptation is mobilised in order to facilitate institutional expansions;<span style="margin:0px"> </span><br>
- How narratives of adaptation target, construct or reconstruct new identities, subjects and citizens of vulnerability;<span style="margin:0px"> </span><br>
- Overlaps and divergences in the discourses and governing technologies of DRR, adaptation, resilience and transformation practice.</span></p>
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<p style="font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;color:black">Deadline for submitting abstracts is<span style="margin:0px"> </span><b>Monday 3<sup>rd</sup><span style="margin:0px"> </span>February</b>.</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px 0px 8pt"><font color="black" face="Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt">Please email title, </span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:14.67px">affiliation, contact details</span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt"> and
abstracts (maximum 250 words) to Sophie Blackburn (</span></font><a href="mailto:sblackburn@brookes.ac.uk" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="margin:0px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(149,79,114);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">sblackburn@brookes.ac.uk</a><font color="black" face="Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt">)
and Lara Langston (</span></font><a href="mailto:lara.langston@kcl.ac.uk" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="margin:0px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(149,79,114);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">lara.langston@kcl.ac.uk</a><font color="black" face="Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt">).
We look forward to hearing from you.</span></font></p>
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<b><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:black">References</span></b></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:black">Andersson, E. Keskitalo, E. (2018) Adaptation to climate change? Why business-as-usual remains the logical choice in Swedish forestry. Global Environmental Change: 48,
76-85.</span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:black">Eriksen, S. Naess, L. (2003)<span style="margin:0px"> </span><i>Pro-Poor Climate Adaptation: Norwegian Development Cooperation and Climate Change Adaptation: An Assessment
of Issues, Strategies and Potential Entry Points.</i><span style="margin:0px"> </span>CICERO Report 2003, Centre for International Climate and Environmental Research: Oslo.<span style="margin:0px"> </span></span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:black">Fankhauser, S. Schmidt-Traub, G. (2011)<span style="margin:0px"> </span><i>From adaptation to climate resilience development: the cost of climate proofing the Millennium
Development Goals in Africa</i>. Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy: London.</span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:black">Godfrey-Wood, R. Naess, L. (2016) Adapting to Climate Change: Transforming Development? 47(2): 49-62.</span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:black">Mikulewicz, M. (2018) Politicizing vulnerability and adaptation: on the need to democratize local responses to climate impacts in developing countries, 10(1): 18-34.</span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:black">Oppenheimer, M. (2013) Climate change impacts: accounting for the human response. Climate Change, 117: 439-449.<span style="margin:0px"> </span></span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:black">Pelling, M. (2011)<span style="margin:0px"> </span><i>Adaptation to climate change: from resilience to transformation</i>. Routledge: London.</span></p>
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