Towards a buoyant political ecology: Rethinking marginalization for coastal climate change adaptation in the tropics
The land-water dichotomy plays a key role in the prevailing global climate change adaptation (CCA) policy discourse for tropical coastal areas. This dichotomy is implicitly informed by a land centered conception of property which regards areas that fluctuate between water and land, or 'aquaterr...
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| description | The land-water dichotomy plays a key role in the prevailing global climate change adaptation (CCA) policy discourse for tropical coastal areas. This dichotomy is implicitly informed by a land centered conception of property which regards areas that fluctuate between water and land, or 'aquaterras', as marginal and in need of development to make them economically profitable. By adopting this perspective, mainstream CCA policies ignore the diverse, vernacular systems of adaptation that communities that dwell in such tropical coastal aquaterras have developed through multigenerational and lived experiences to negotiate climatic and contingent uncertainties. The article calls on political ecologists to jettison land-centered, economic representations of marginality and marginalization in favor of a 'buoyant', critical CCA approach which recognizes and builds on the vernacular knowings and expertise of tropical coastal aquaterra communities. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-3f6a84c5cb9e4ce6b23a458cb727b3b22025-08-20T02:42:49ZengUniversity of Arizona LibrariesJournal of Political Ecology1073-04512025-01-0132110.2458/jpe.5860Towards a buoyant political ecology: Rethinking marginalization for coastal climate change adaptation in the tropicsHaripriya Rangan0https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4238-2353Judith Carney1https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2758-431XSchool of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of MelbourneGeography, University of California Los AngelesThe land-water dichotomy plays a key role in the prevailing global climate change adaptation (CCA) policy discourse for tropical coastal areas. This dichotomy is implicitly informed by a land centered conception of property which regards areas that fluctuate between water and land, or 'aquaterras', as marginal and in need of development to make them economically profitable. By adopting this perspective, mainstream CCA policies ignore the diverse, vernacular systems of adaptation that communities that dwell in such tropical coastal aquaterras have developed through multigenerational and lived experiences to negotiate climatic and contingent uncertainties. The article calls on political ecologists to jettison land-centered, economic representations of marginality and marginalization in favor of a 'buoyant', critical CCA approach which recognizes and builds on the vernacular knowings and expertise of tropical coastal aquaterra communities.http://journals.librarypublishing.arizona.edu/jpe/article/id/5860/political ecologymarginalizationtropicsuncertaintyclimate change adaptation |
| spellingShingle | Haripriya Rangan Judith Carney Towards a buoyant political ecology: Rethinking marginalization for coastal climate change adaptation in the tropics Journal of Political Ecology political ecology marginalization tropics uncertainty climate change adaptation |
| title | Towards a buoyant political ecology: Rethinking marginalization for coastal climate change adaptation in the tropics |
| title_full | Towards a buoyant political ecology: Rethinking marginalization for coastal climate change adaptation in the tropics |
| title_fullStr | Towards a buoyant political ecology: Rethinking marginalization for coastal climate change adaptation in the tropics |
| title_full_unstemmed | Towards a buoyant political ecology: Rethinking marginalization for coastal climate change adaptation in the tropics |
| title_short | Towards a buoyant political ecology: Rethinking marginalization for coastal climate change adaptation in the tropics |
| title_sort | towards a buoyant political ecology rethinking marginalization for coastal climate change adaptation in the tropics |
| topic | political ecology marginalization tropics uncertainty climate change adaptation |
| url | http://journals.librarypublishing.arizona.edu/jpe/article/id/5860/ |
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