Social Memory in the Mekong’s Changing Floodscapes: Narratives of Agrarian Communities’ Adaptation

Tran, Thong Anh; Rigg, Jonathan; Taylor, David; Miller, Michelle Ann; Pittock, Jamie; Le, Phong Thanh

doi:10.1007/s10745-022-00362-0

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“…For these coastal farmers, rice crops and natural risks like drought and saline intrusion are a natural part of their “moral identity,” which holds intrinsic “values and notions of self at an individual level and as part of the community's overall self-concept, which can be drawn upon in times of hardship” (Clarke and Mayer, 2017, p. 137). Relying on this identity, they become romanticised about the disaster and defensive about the maintenance of their farming routine, as observed in flood-vulnerable farming communities in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta's upper part (Tran et al. , 2022).…”

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Reflexivity, habitus and vulnerability: Vietnamese farmers' attribution of responsibility in a post-disaster context

Nguyen‐Trung¹

2023

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PurposeThis article examines how farmers' assignment of responsibility for the disaster in late 2015 – early 2016 connects with reflexivity, habitus and local vulnerability.Design/methodology/approachThis article uses semi-structured interviews with 28 disaster-affected households in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta to answer the question.FindingsThis article finds out that Vietnamese farmers actively accepted their responsibility for the disaster. In their explanation, they link their action with the root causes of vulnerability embedded in their socio-cultural traditions and collective identity.Research limitations/implicationsThis article makes a case for the importance of local culture and epistemologies in understanding disaster vulnerability and responsibility attribution.Originality/valueThis article is original in researching Vietnamese farmers' responsibility attribution, their aesthetic reflexivity, collective habitus and the socio-cultural root causes of disaster.

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Reflexivity, habitus and vulnerability: Vietnamese farmers' attribution of responsibility in a post-disaster context

Nguyen‐Trung¹

2023

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“…This risk-taking attitude was linked to a cultural understanding of natural hazards as an opportunity rather than a challenge (Nguyen-Trung, 2022). Farmers' proclivity to romanticize natural hazards was evident: 'living on this flood-based occupation, I am always happy to see the regular returns of floods, especially major ones, as they provide good opportunities for my farming' (Tran et al, 2022). In various hazard-prone areas of Vietnam, the interaction with disasters and climatic extremes has helped to shape distinct patterns of adaptation.…”

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Examining Disaster and Climate Change Studies Using the Funnel of Multiple Capital Deployment (FMAD) Framework: A Review of Vietnamese literature

Nguyen‐Trung¹

2023

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Based on a revised multiple capital framework called the Funnel of Multiple Capital Deployment (FMAD), this article provides a critical reflection on how local communities in Vietnam respond to disasters and climate change. This framework depicts communities' dispositions to mobilize and allocate various community capitals to relevant collective actions in order to successfully adapt to external threats such as disaster risks and climate change. The deployment of this capital is heavily influenced by the state's institutional capacity for disaster risk management and climate change adaptation. This article demonstrates this framework by reviewing recent research on disaster risk management and climate change adaptation in Vietnamese scholarship. The article demonstrates that local practices of using various capital in disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation are informed by a wealth of evidence from the current literature, even though the reviewed studies did not use the multiple capital framework in their research. The center-focused control and command system in Vietnam has often discouraged disaster-affected communities' participation in local disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation as well as in active preparation for upcoming disasters and climate change. It was clear that some local communities had become overly reliant on government assistance and had lost their creativity and ability to deal with adversity. It has been argued that the government should delegate more power to local governments and grassroot movements so that local communities can actively design and implement their own disaster risk management and climate change adaptation planning, response, mitigation, and recovery activities.

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Evolving pathways towards water security in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta: An adaptive management perspective

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Van Vo

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The interplay of climate change, upstream hydropower development, and local water engineering interventions for agricultural production contributes substantially to the transformation of waterscapes and water scarcity in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta. This paper aims to examine how these dynamics are linked to the paradigm shift in water management in An Giang and Ben Tre, the two ecologically distinct provinces that face serious water scarcity in the delta. We used the adaptive management concept to examine how state-led policy directions from food security towards water security enable change in water management that gives priority to water retention. While policy learning is evident, questions remain about how this ad-hoc solution could help address the presently acute water scarcity and water security over the long term. The paper advocates achieving water security should focus not only on diplomatic interventions into upstream climate-development complexities but also local water-livelihood politics.

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Social Memory in the Mekong’s Changing Floodscapes: Narratives of Agrarian Communities’ Adaptation

Cited by 5 publications

References 59 publications

Reflexivity, habitus and vulnerability: Vietnamese farmers' attribution of responsibility in a post-disaster context

Reflexivity, habitus and vulnerability: Vietnamese farmers' attribution of responsibility in a post-disaster context

Examining Disaster and Climate Change Studies Using the Funnel of Multiple Capital Deployment (FMAD) Framework: A Review of Vietnamese literature

Evolving pathways towards water security in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta: An adaptive management perspective

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