Resisting, leveraging, and reworking climate change adaptation projects from below: placing adaptation in Ecuador's agrarian struggle

As climate change escalates, donors, international organizations, and state actors are implementing adaptation projects. Embedded within these adaptation projects are imaginaries of rural resilience. These imaginaries, however, are contested by individuals and collectives targeted by such initiative...

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Published in:The Journal of peasant studies 2023-09, Vol.50 (6), p.2283-2311
Main Authors: Mills-Novoa, Megan, Boelens, Rutgerd, Hoogesteger, Jaime, Vos, Jeroen
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adaptation
Beneficiaries
Climate change
Climate change adaptation
Collectives
Donors
Foucauldian analysis
governmentality
Hegemony
Individual collective relationship
International organizations
Latin America
Opting out
political ecology
politics
Resilience
resistance
Transformation
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Summary:As climate change escalates, donors, international organizations, and state actors are implementing adaptation projects. Embedded within these adaptation projects are imaginaries of rural resilience. These imaginaries, however, are contested by individuals and collectives targeted by such initiatives. In this article, we draw on Foucault's notion of counter conducts to understand how beneficiaries in Ecuador resist, leverage, and/or rework adaptation interventions and towards what end. We identified five counter conducts: (1) negotiating for control, (2) setting the terms for participation, (3) opting out, (4) subverting the discursive frame, and (5) leveraging longevity. We argue that these counter conducts are generative, enacting multi-scalar counter-hegemonic politics of agrarian transformation.
ISSN:0306-6150
1743-9361
DOI:10.1080/03066150.2022.2144252