Growing Hope: Island Agriculture and Refusing Catastrophe in Climate Change Adaptation in Fiji
In both media and policy, climate change is broadly framed as the promise of catastrophe for small island states such as Fiji. This framing is often used to attract adaptation investment in islands, the targets and directives of which are frequently market-based and oriented toward economic-growth d...
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Island Studies Journal
2021-11-01
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| description | In both media and policy, climate change is broadly framed as the promise of catastrophe for small island states such as Fiji. This framing is often used to attract adaptation investment in islands, the targets and directives of which are frequently market-based and oriented toward economic-growth development models. In Fiji, this takes the form of land tenure policy and efforts to attract investment to support agricultural modernization. Such a pattern is the source of scholarly and activist critique that climate change adaptation is nothing more than a repackaging of neoliberal development. This paper seeks to situate such critique alongside parallel attention to climate change adaptation practices emerging from alternative, hopeful frames and aimed at less national development driven efforts. In doing so, it centers adaptation as a space of unsettled struggle and asks, in what ways do climate change adaptation practices in Fiji align and conflict with dominant framing of island vulnerability and climate catastrophe, and how might they suggest alternative adaptive interventions that renegotiate these frames? Specifically, this paper focuses on efforts to promote ‘traditional’ agriculture throughout Fiji as an endogenous and hopeful form of adaptation, and one consistently opposed to efforts at agricultural modernization as an adaptation strategy. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-3628115a4a624766af4a38e7c6c194de2023-07-29T13:38:40ZengIsland Studies JournalIsland Studies Journal1715-25932021-11-01162Growing Hope: Island Agriculture and Refusing Catastrophe in Climate Change Adaptation in FijiDelilah GriswoldIn both media and policy, climate change is broadly framed as the promise of catastrophe for small island states such as Fiji. This framing is often used to attract adaptation investment in islands, the targets and directives of which are frequently market-based and oriented toward economic-growth development models. In Fiji, this takes the form of land tenure policy and efforts to attract investment to support agricultural modernization. Such a pattern is the source of scholarly and activist critique that climate change adaptation is nothing more than a repackaging of neoliberal development. This paper seeks to situate such critique alongside parallel attention to climate change adaptation practices emerging from alternative, hopeful frames and aimed at less national development driven efforts. In doing so, it centers adaptation as a space of unsettled struggle and asks, in what ways do climate change adaptation practices in Fiji align and conflict with dominant framing of island vulnerability and climate catastrophe, and how might they suggest alternative adaptive interventions that renegotiate these frames? Specifically, this paper focuses on efforts to promote ‘traditional’ agriculture throughout Fiji as an endogenous and hopeful form of adaptation, and one consistently opposed to efforts at agricultural modernization as an adaptation strategy.https://doi.org/10.24043/isj.181 |
| spellingShingle | Delilah Griswold Growing Hope: Island Agriculture and Refusing Catastrophe in Climate Change Adaptation in Fiji Island Studies Journal |
| title | Growing Hope: Island Agriculture and Refusing Catastrophe in Climate Change Adaptation in Fiji |
| title_full | Growing Hope: Island Agriculture and Refusing Catastrophe in Climate Change Adaptation in Fiji |
| title_fullStr | Growing Hope: Island Agriculture and Refusing Catastrophe in Climate Change Adaptation in Fiji |
| title_full_unstemmed | Growing Hope: Island Agriculture and Refusing Catastrophe in Climate Change Adaptation in Fiji |
| title_short | Growing Hope: Island Agriculture and Refusing Catastrophe in Climate Change Adaptation in Fiji |
| title_sort | growing hope island agriculture and refusing catastrophe in climate change adaptation in fiji |
| url | https://doi.org/10.24043/isj.181 |
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