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Governmentalities, hydrosocial territories & recognition politics: The making of objects and subjects for climate change adaptation in Ecuador
- Source :
- Geoforum 115 (2020), Geoforum, 115, 90-101. Elsevier, Geoforum, 115, 90-101
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2020.
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Abstract
- Adaptation to climate change has become a major policy and project focus for donors and governments globally. In this article, we provide insight into how adaptation projects mobilize distinct imaginaries and knowledge claims that create territories for intervention (the objects) as well as targeted populations (the subjects) to sustain them. Drawing on two emblematic climate change adaptation projects in Ecuador, we show how these objects and subjects are created through a knowledge production process that (a) creates a discursive climate change rationale; (b) sidesteps uncertainty related to climate change impacts; (c) fosters a circular citational practice that (self-)reinforces the project's expert knowledge; and (d) makes complex social variables commensurable based on the project's rationality, interests, and quantifiable indicators. The emerging hydrosocial territories ‘in need of intervention’ require subjects that inhabit, produce and reproduce these territories, in accordance with specific climate change discourses and practices. To manufacture and align these subjects, projects employ participatory practices that are informed by recognition politics aimed at disciplining participants toward particular identities and ways of thinking and acting. We analyze these distinct strategies as multiple governmentalities enacted through participatory adaptation projects seeking to produce specific climate change resilient hydrosocial territories and corresponding subjects.
- Subjects :
- Sociology and Political Science
05 social sciences
Participation
0211 other engineering and technologies
0507 social and economic geography
Climate change adaptation
Climate change
WASS
021107 urban & regional planning
Citizen journalism
Rationality
Environmental ethics
02 engineering and technology
Hydrosocial territories
Making-of
Water Resources Management
Governmentality
Intervention (law)
Politics
Political science
Ecuador
Recognition politics
Adaptation (computer science)
050703 geography
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00167185
- Volume :
- 115
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Geoforum
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....80ffc747bd69bf33a06cf9edc54a4d22