Climate shocks and adaptation strategies in coastal Bangladesh: does microcredit have a part to play?

Jordan, J. C.

doi:10.1080/17565529.2020.1799737

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“…Microcredit is presented as one of the most prominent adaptation strategies for disaster capitalism (Fenton et al, 2017). However, microcredit causes indebtedness responsible for malnutrition, asset loss, and debt default (Banerjee and Jackson, 2017; Jordan, 2020). Poor people’s entrepreneurial capabilities are exploited by market-centric microfinance, another component of climate apartheid.…”

Section: Sociology At the University Of Dhaka In Bangladeshmentioning

confidence: 99%

Decolonizing Sociology for Social Justice in Bangladesh: Delta Scholarship Matters

Hossen

2022

Critical Sociology

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Sociology is one of the major disciplines to foster understanding and protection of the livelihoods of local people. For instance, the discipline can describe the linkage between the environment and people and the effects of environmental change on local groups of people in a Delta country such as Bangladesh. However, the imperial philosophy of modernity that dominates the discipline and which is evident in the Sociology department at the University of Dhaka (UofD) underscores a considerable distance between academic conceptualizations of local perspectives on issues such as climatic change and the actual views of the local people of Bangladesh. Grounded on this assertion, this paper explores a question: What are the challenges for Sociology to represent Delta people and protect their social justice? The paper depends on the content analysis of sociological practices at UofD: imperial modernity and climatic adaptation. The findings of the paper argue that Sociology has been failing to represent the local meanings of climatic change due to the domination of imperial conceptualizations of modernity. Climate finance conceptualized by a Western perspective, and Sociology, as a discipline, fails to represent locally contextualized meanings related to climate finance; thus, the marginalized groups of people are increasingly facing survival challenges responsible for climate apartheid. Only a decolonized Sociology can challenge this imperial domination and play an effective role in reducing the discipline’s gap of understanding of the local people and in promoting social justice in Delta Bangladesh.

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Section: Sociology At the University Of Dhaka In Bangladeshmentioning

confidence: 99%

Decolonizing Sociology for Social Justice in Bangladesh: Delta Scholarship Matters

Hossen

2022

Critical Sociology

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“…Hence, at‐risk people tend to invest their resources in building social or spiritual networks to enhance social well‐being and generating the potential support that networks provide in times of shock (Woolcock and Narayan, 2000; Adger, 2003; Jordan, 2015; Melo Zurita et al, 2018). This support may include food and water provision (Kuruppu, 2009), psychosocial support (Nathan, 2014), and access to information and skills (Osbahr et al, 2010), natural and economic resources (Jordan, 2020), and organisations and programmes (Krishna, 2001), all of which may augment the ability to respond to shocks. Thus, while climate risks are not addressed directly, social networks can provide support to deal with multiple and overlapping local climate and non‐climatic risks on a daily basis (Grothmann and Patt, 2005; Jordan, 2012; Sullivan‐Wiley and Short Gianotti, 2017).…”

Section: Risk Perceptions and Cultures: Understanding Organisational mentioning

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Risk perception and culture: implications for vulnerability and adaptation to climate change

Rühlemann¹,

Jordan

2020

Disasters

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Perceptions of climate change play a critical role in determining the degree to which people are at risk throughout the world. The significance of culture in understanding why people perceive and respond to climate change in particular ways is largely ignored in mainstream climate change adaptation. This paper applies a critical realist approach to examine the sociocultural structures and causal mechanisms for inaction or (in)effective action between at-risk people and the organisations responsible for dealing with climate change. The findings reveal that there are varying context-specific sub-narratives among heterogeneous groups of people at risk and organisations that lead to inaction or (in)effective action in response to climate change, often independent of risk perceptions and with unforeseen consequences for the vulnerabilities of at-risk people. Specifically, sub-narratives may create parallel and/or conflicting climate-related perceptions and respective responses, legitimise unequal resource distribution, and justify the suppression and/or capitalisation of sub-cultural and/or individual risk perceptions.

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“…Coastal communities of South Asian countries displacing from their living home and land in at least four ways: (i) the escalation of natural disasters both rapid and slow-onset leading to increased displacement as well as migration; (ii) the adverse effect of augmented warming, variability of climate and additional influences of climate change on living and livelihoods, health, food insecurity and availability of ground and surface water ; (iii) rising sea levels that consequences of the coastal areas dilapidated; and (iv) antagonism over the inadequate natural resources potentially consequences for increasing tensions and even conflict and, in turn, displacement [42][43][44][45][46]. Rahman et al, stated that people in an excellent financial condition and with useful resources migrate in a planned way, while those who are very poor, particularly women, children, old aged and person with disabilities, have fewer options for moreover intended or obligatory displacement leading migration.…”

Section: Displacement Of Coastal Communitiesmentioning

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“…Accordingly, climate displaced people consolidated in the specific location are also suffering different problems such as social stratification; the crisis of identity; oppression by local political and muscle men; isolation of mainstreaming society; paying illegal money; loss of social, cultural harmony; lacking their basic amenities, dignity and rights and so on. This community-based relocation process can guard them against stigmatization and isolation and which could avail the other essential benefit from Government and NGOs as they stay in conventional society [44,45]. Among the 64 districts, 26 coastal and mainland districts of Bangladesh are already producing climate displacement.…”

Section: Displacement Of Coastal Communitiesmentioning

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“…Although climate change becomes the consequences of significant livelihood challenges for mass communities for low-lying nations at inundation risk, there is constant indecision over how the impacts of climate change will be hindered for different community groups in various locations and that its effects may not be appreciably felt for the last decades. Thus, depending on the relocation and resettlement strategies as a climate change vulnerability responses that assess for the foreclose other, few severe options for climate adaptation, development of early disaster warning systems could attempt for reducing the climate change vulnerability and effects on the coastal communities [43][44][45].…”

Section: Displacement Of Coastal Communitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Review on Coastal Erosion, Displacement and Resettlement Strategies of South Asian Countries

Barua

Rahman

Mitra

et al. 2020

Glob. Environ. Eng.

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Coastal areas are subjected to unwelcome circumstances in the shape of sea-level rise and its adverse outcomes like storm surge, flooding and erosion with continuous climate change. In this manuscript, the authors presented the two case studies of erosion, displacement pattern and resettlement examples of climate displaced people of Bangladesh and India. Climate displaced people of Bangladesh and India have been an influx from coastal areas to a disaster-free safe area and also urban slum areas. In these circumstances, displaced people didn’t enjoy their cultural harmony, social status, family bondage in new living places. Resettled climate displaced people in the new habitat of Bangladesh and India are trying to adopting their new living conditions. Facilities of rehabilitation facilities have been evaluated to be insufficient and tiny for their sustenance in the long run. An appropriate development strategy is required by the Government so as to avoid the socio-economic backwardness of the resettlement areas of the South-Eastern coast of Bangladesh and Indian Sundarban inhabitants. The island inhabitants wait with great anxiety for help from the Government and Non-Government authorities to come frontward and support them to pull through their losses.

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Climate shocks and adaptation strategies in coastal Bangladesh: does microcredit have a part to play?

Cited by 18 publications

References 74 publications

Decolonizing Sociology for Social Justice in Bangladesh: Delta Scholarship Matters

Decolonizing Sociology for Social Justice in Bangladesh: Delta Scholarship Matters

Risk perception and culture: implications for vulnerability and adaptation to climate change

Review on Coastal Erosion, Displacement and Resettlement Strategies of South Asian Countries

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