[liberationtech] Fwd: 2nd CfP RGS-IBG: Technologies of adaptation governance: power, politics, possibility

[Paola Di Maio]

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From: Langston, Lara <00003c43084ed974-dmarc-request at jiscmail.ac.uk>
Date: Sat, Feb 1, 2020 at 5:48 AM
Subject: 2nd CfP RGS-IBG: Technologies of adaptation governance: power,
politics, possibility
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could be of interest?

Please see below for a second 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 sponsorship by the Climate Change Research Group (CCRG).

We hope to hear from you!

Lara

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*Technologies of adaptation governance: power, politics, possibility *

*Call for Papers for RGS-IBG Annual Conference, London, 2nd-6th September
2020*

Sponsored by the Climate Change Research Group (CCRG)

Session organisers: Dr Sophie Blackburn (Oxford Brookes University) and
Lara Langston (King’s College London)

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.


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.


Papers might address the following themes and questions:

- Local or national power structures manifest in particular modes of
adaptation governance;
- Modes or practices of resistance against mainstream adaptation practice,
discourse, or policy;
- How adaptation is mobilised in order to facilitate institutional
expansions;
- How narratives of adaptation target, construct or reconstruct new
identities, subjects and citizens of vulnerability;
- Overlaps and divergences in the discourses and governing technologies of
DRR, adaptation, resilience and transformation practice.


Deadline for submitting abstracts is *Monday 3rd February*.


Please email title, affiliation, contact details and abstracts (maximum 250
words) to Sophie Blackburn (sblackburn at brookes.ac.uk) and Lara Langston (
lara.langston at kcl.ac.uk). We look forward to hearing from you.


*References*

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.

Eriksen, S. Naess, L. (2003) *Pro-Poor Climate Adaptation: Norwegian
Development Cooperation and Climate Change Adaptation: An Assessment of
Issues, Strategies and Potential Entry Points.* CICERO Report 2003, Centre
for International Climate and Environmental Research: Oslo.

Fankhauser, S. Schmidt-Traub, G. (2011) *From adaptation to climate
resilience development: the cost of climate proofing the Millennium
Development Goals in Africa*. Centre for Climate Change Economics and
Policy: London.

Godfrey-Wood, R. Naess, L. (2016) Adapting to Climate Change: Transforming
Development? 47(2): 49-62.

Mikulewicz, M. (2018) Politicizing vulnerability and adaptation: on the
need to democratize local responses to climate impacts in developing
countries, 10(1): 18-34.

Oppenheimer, M. (2013) Climate change impacts: accounting for the human
response. Climate Change, 117: 439-449.

Pelling, M. (2011) *Adaptation to climate change: from resilience to
transformation*. Routledge: London.

Lara Langston

PhD Candidate

Contested Development Research Group

Department of Geography, King's College London


Room 6.01, Bush House North East Wing

Aldwych, London

WC2B 4BG





* lara.langston at kcl.ac.uk
( (+44)7969 464 736
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