---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Langston, Lara <[email protected]> Date: Sat, Feb 1, 2020 at 5:48 AM Subject: 2nd CfP RGS-IBG: Technologies of adaptation governance: power, politics, possibility To: <[email protected]>
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 _______________________ *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 ([email protected]) and Lara Langston ( [email protected]). 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 * [email protected] ( (+44)7969 464 736
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