不平等之山:在喜马拉雅山脉遭遇气候适应政治

IF 3.6 2区 社会学 Q1 ECOLOGY Ecology and Society Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI:10.5751/es-14399-280406
Ritodhi Chakraborty, Costanza Rampini, Pasang Sherpa
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由于气候变化影响的加剧,人们普遍呼吁在喜马拉雅地区发展变革性适应知识和战略。但是,在喜马拉雅气候知识生产中,这种变革思维在很大程度上是缺失的,这种知识生产是建立在环境确定性和技术管理对异常不稳定的描述之上的;提倡增加科学和专家驱动的实地项目;并且仍然植根于民族国家的标量现实。这篇论文通过呈现作者在喜马拉雅社区工作中出现的“适应的日常故事”,为丰富的学术贡献了力量,抵消了气候变化适应的非政治化表述。在这项工作中,我们问,谁是喜马拉雅气候适应话语和政策的主体?他们的故事如何帮助我们设想一种适应实践,通过突出社区和生态的交叉性和多元性,挑战对危机的区域性叙述,并为气候还原主义思维/规划提供替代方案?这些故事来自喜马拉雅山脉的三个部分:北阿坎德邦、昆布和阿萨姆邦,突出了适应的日常劳动以及它与生存劳动的变化无常的关系。我们发现,与不断变化的气候-社会关系交织在一起的是,历史上的种姓特权和与土地的代际关系的变化;土著、社区主权和排他性机构授权之间的复杂关系;在一个含水和地缘政治不稳定的边境地区,与种族和宗教共处。这些故事共同见证了地区居民的关系社会生态世界,通过气候还原框架挑战了他们无能为力和轻蔑的描述。最后,我们提出了一系列目标,以实现更有希望和更公正的适应未来。
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Mountains of inequality: encountering the politics of climate adaptation across the Himalaya
There has been a widespread call for the development of transformative adaptation knowledge and strategies in the Himalayan region because of the intensifying onset of climate change impacts. But such transformative thinking is absent in much of Himalayan climate knowledge production, which builds on environmental deterministic and techno-managerial renditions of exceptional precarity; advocates for an increase in the scientific and expert driven projects on the ground; and remains rooted in the scalar realities of the nation-state. This paper contributes to the rich scholarship that counterbalances depoliticized renditions of climate change adaptation, by presenting “everyday stories of adaptation” that have emerged from the authors’ work alongside Himalayan communities. In this work we ask, who is the subject in Himalayan climate adaptation discourse and policies? And how can their stories help us envision an adaptation praxis, which challenges regional narratives of crisis and provides alternatives to climate reductionist thinking/planning, by foregrounding the intersectionality and plurality of communities and ecologies? The stories come from three parts of the Himalaya: Uttarakhand, Khumbu, and Assam, and highlight the daily labor for adaptation and its mercurial relationship with the labor for survival. We find that intertwined with changing climate-society relationships are, historical caste privileges and changing generational relationships to land; the complicated engagements between indigeneity, communal sovereignty, and exclusionary institutional mandates; and life with ethnoreligious othering in an aqueous and geopolitically fluid borderland. Together these stories witness the relational social-ecological worlds of regional inhabitants, challenging their powerless and pejorative depictions through climate reductive framings. We conclude with a set of objectives to enable more hopeful and just adaptation futures.
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Ecology and Society
Ecology and Society 环境科学-生态学
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