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DESCRIPTION:Geography and the Environment Colloquium Series: "Local Resista
 nce to Climate Change Adaptation: Hindrance or Opportunity?"Michael Mikule
 wicz\, Assistant Professor\, Department of Environmental Studies\, SUNY- E
 SF.Over the years\, hundreds of climate change adaptation projects have be
 en implemented globally. While there has been substantial scholarship on t
 he extent and nature of adaptation efforts\, fewer studies have examined w
 hy and how adaptation projects are being resisted. Meanwhile\, analysis of
  resistance to adaptation offers critical insights to scholars and practit
 ioners by recognizing the contentious nature of adaptation pathways and hi
 ghlighting alternative visions for adaptation. In this talk\, I will prese
 nt some of the findings of a systematic review of the literature on the to
 pic of resistance to climate change adaptation\, including the motivations
  of and strategies employed by resisters\, resistance outcomes\, the role 
 of the state\, and analytical implications for adaptation research. I will
  also discuss a case study of a small village in São Tomé and Príncipe\, w
 hich refused to participate in an adaptation project implemented by the na
 tional government and the United Nations Development Program. By following
  a Rancierian understanding of post-political\, I analyze local resistance
  as a ‘political interruption’ of the otherwise post-political adaptation 
 configuration in the country\, and discuss the factors that arguably led t
 o local resistance\, including the residents’ disillusion with what I term
  Big Development and their political subjectivation through a local grassr
 oots initiative.&nbsp\;
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SUMMARY:Local Resistance to Climate Change Adaptation: Hindrance or Opportu
 nity?
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p>Geography and the Environment Colloquium Se
 ries: "Local Resistance to Climate Change Adaptation: Hindrance or Opportu
 nity?"</p><p>Michael Mikulewicz\, Assistant Professor\, Department of Envi
 ronmental Studies\, SUNY- ESF.</p><p>Over the years\, hundreds of climate 
 change adaptation projects have been implemented globally. While there has
  been substantial scholarship on the extent and nature of adaptation effor
 ts\, fewer studies have examined why and how adaptation projects are being
  resisted. Meanwhile\, analysis of resistance to adaptation offers critica
 l insights to scholars and practitioners by recognizing the contentious na
 ture of adaptation pathways and highlighting alternative visions for adapt
 ation. </p><p>In this talk\, I will present some of the findings of a syst
 ematic review of the literature on the topic of resistance to climate chan
 ge adaptation\, including the motivations of and strategies employed by re
 sisters\, resistance outcomes\, the role of the state\, and analytical imp
 lications for adaptation research. I will also discuss a case study of a s
 mall village in São Tomé and Príncipe\, which refused to participate in an
  adaptation project implemented by the national government and the United 
 Nations Development Program. </p><p>By following a Rancierian understandin
 g of post-political\, I analyze local resistance as a ‘political interrupt
 ion’ of the otherwise post-political adaptation configuration in the count
 ry\, and discuss the factors that arguably led to local resistance\, inclu
 ding the residents’ disillusion with what I term Big Development and their
  political subjectivation through a local grassroots initiative.&nbsp\;</p
 >
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