Thick temporalities of planned relocation in Fiji

McMichael, Celia; Katonivualiku, Manasa

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2019.06.012

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“…There is insufficient evidence to support categorizing the adaptation extent in any region or sector as high. Some examples of high adaptation exist, 101,102 but are not sufficiently widespread to imply high overall extent across an entire region or sector. Evidence for medium extent was available for only a small number of regions and sectors.…”

Section: What Is the Extent Of Responses?mentioning

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Mapping evidence of human adaptation to climate change

Berrang‐Ford

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Lesnikowski

et al. 2021

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We present the first systematic, global stocktake of the academic literature on human adaptation. We screen 48,316 documents and identify 1,682 articles that present empirical research documenting human efforts to reduce risk from climate change and associated hazards. Coding and synthesizing this literature highlights that the overall extent of adaptation across global regions and sectors is low. Adaptations are largely local and incremental rather than transformative. Behavioural adjustments by individuals and households are more prevalent than any other type of response, largely motivated by drought and precipitation variability. Local governments and civil society are engaging in risk reduction across all sectors and regions, particularly in response to flooding. Urban technological and infrastructural adaptations to flood risk are prevalent in Europe, while shifts in farming practices dominate reporting from Africa and Asia. Despite increasing evidence of adaptation responses, evidence that these responses are reducing risks (observed and projected) remains limited.

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Section: What Is the Extent Of Responses?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Mapping evidence of human adaptation to climate change

Berrang‐Ford

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Lesnikowski

et al. 2021

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“…In 2006, Vunidogoloa’s residents approached the Government of Fiji seeking financial assistance for relocation. Other socioeconomic factors may have contributed to villagers’ decision to relocate, including the distance from the road and transport, and limited access to services [ 19 ].…”

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Planned Relocation and Health: A Case Study from Fiji

McMichael

Powell

2021

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In Fiji, low-lying coastal villages are beginning to retreat and relocate in response to coastal erosion, flooding and saltwater intrusion. Planned relocation is considered a last resort as a form of adaptation to the impacts of climatic and environmental change. The health impacts of planned relocation are poorly understood. This paper draws on data from multi-year research with residents of the iTaukei (Indigenous) Fijian village of Vunidogoloa. We used qualitative research methods to examine experiences of planned relocation, including residents’ accounts of their health and quality of life. In-depth interviews and group discussions were conducted with villagers living in a site of relocation, at four points in time (2015, 2016, 2019, and 2020). Twenty-seven people in Vunidogoloa, Fiji, participated in in-depth interviews, several on more than one occasion. Six group discussions with between eight to twelve participants were also conducted. Qualitative analytic software (NVivo) was used to analyse interview transcripts and identify themes. Villagers report both health benefits and challenges following planned relocation. Key facilitators for good health include movement away from some environmental risks to health, adequate drinking water and sanitation, food security including through farms and kitchen gardens, livelihood opportunities, improved access to schools and health services, and appropriate housing design. However, residents also refer to unanticipated risks to health including increased consumption of packaged goods and alcohol, disruptions to social structures and traditional values, and disrupted place attachment following movement away from a coastal site of belonging with consequences for mental wellbeing. Therefore, planned relocation has altered the social determinants of health in complex ways, bringing both health opportunities and risks. These results highlight the need for context-specific planning and adaptation programs that include meaningful involvement of community members in ongoing decision making, and call for an understanding of diverse social determinants of health that emerge and evolve in contexts of planned relocation.

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“…Nevertheless, as social science research on disasters and climate change adaptation has shown, disruptions unfold unevenly, socially, spatially and temporally (Fincher et al, 2014; McMichael and Katonivualiku, 2020). What appear to be ‘temporally discrete events with finite impact and recovery periods’ (McKinnon, 2019: 205), are endured as complex and on-going phenomena connecting earlier lived experiences with present stresses.…”

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“…There will be multiple pathways out of crisis, some recuperative, others regressive, opportunistic, or contested. Rather than ‘reset’ moments, disruptions such as the coronavirus pandemic are instances of ‘thick time’ (McMichael and Katonivualiku, 2020: 286): the past, present and future palpable together in the everyday.…”

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Theorising tourism in crisis: Writing and relating in place

Gibson

2021

Tourist Studies

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Recent headline events – most notably the COVID-19 pandemic – have illustrated the fragility of tourism capitalism, prompting forward-looking analyses among critical scholars. While grappling with political and philosophical implications, commentaries have tended towards the prescriptive and general: contemplating the collapse of tourism as-we-know-it, and foregrounding opportunities to reconstitute more sustainable, resilient and inclusive forms of tourism. Heeding Haraway’s call to ‘stay with the trouble’, I briefly outline three sympathetic critiques, integrating insights from more-than-human theory, disaster studies and climate change adaptation literatures. First, I unsettle temporalities of disruption and change that emphasise singular moments, such as lockdowns, rather than multiple temporalities of vulnerability and resilience. Second, a lurking species exceptionalism, which positions humans as the locus of agency, is contrasted with nonhuman capacities to shape unfurling events. Third, speculations on tourism’s future that rest on normative categories, disembodied from lived experience, are contrasted with First Nations ontologies, and the messiness of tourism’s relatings in place. Theorising tourism, within and beyond crisis, must evolve iteratively from the ethnographic. To illustrate, I ‘write from’ the east coast of Australia, where an otherwise steady-growth tourism economy has experienced profound disruption in 2020, not just from coronavirus-related travel restrictions, but from climate-change-amplified catastrophic bushfires. From this vantage point, multiple traumas refract tourism industry responses, while hope commingles with caution, tempering strident proclamations on the future. The nonhuman, political-economic, and emotional are inextricably entwined in the fabric of tourism. The fraught navigation of lived (more-than-human) experience must figure more prominently in our scholarly reckonings.

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Thick temporalities of planned relocation in Fiji

Cited by 53 publications

References 38 publications

Mapping evidence of human adaptation to climate change

Mapping evidence of human adaptation to climate change

Planned Relocation and Health: A Case Study from Fiji

Theorising tourism in crisis: Writing and relating in place

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