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DESCRIPTION:Seminar in Critical Development Studies\, Spring 2024\n\nThis s
 eminar is co-hosted by Cornell Global Development and the Graduate Field of
  Development Studies.\n\nAbstract\n\nOver the years\, hundreds of climate c
 hange adaptation projects have been implemented globally. While there has b
 een substantial scholarship on the extent and nature of adaptation efforts\
 , fewer studies have examined why and how adaptation projects are being res
 isted. Meanwhile\, analysis of resistance to adaptation offers critical ins
 ights to scholars and practitioners by recognizing the contentious nature o
 f adaptation pathways and highlighting alternative visions for adaptation. 
 In this talk\, Michael Mikulewicz will present some of the findings of a sy
 stematic review of the literature on the topic of resistance to climate cha
 nge adaptation\, including the motivations of and strategies employed by re
 sisters\, resistance outcomes\, the role of the state\, and analytical impl
 ications for adaptation research. He will also discuss a case study of a sm
 all village in São Tomé and Príncipe\, which refused to participate in an a
 daptation project implemented by the national government and the United Nat
 ions Development Program. By following a Rancierian understanding of the po
 st-political\, he analyzes local resistance as a ‘political interruption’ o
 f the otherwise post-political adaptation configuration in the country\, an
 d discuss the factors that arguably led to local resistance\, including the
  residents’ disillusion with what he terms Big Development and their politi
 cal subjectivation through a local grassroots initiative.\n\nAbout the spea
 ker\n\nMichael Mikulewicz is Assistant Professor at the SUNY College of Env
 ironmental Science and Forestry. His research interests include climate jus
 tice\, Environmental justice\, Adaptation\, Resilience & Vulnerability\, In
 ternational development\, Climate finance\, UNFCCC process\, Urban sustaina
 bility\, Public health\, LGBTQ+ studies\, and Qualitative & Participatory m
 ethods.\n\nAbout the Critical Development Studies Seminar Series\n\nThe Cri
 tical Development Studies Seminar Series is a graduate student-led effort t
 hat aims to provide space for junior scholars to share innovative research 
 and discuss emergent debates within critical development studies.\n\nInvite
 d speakers cover a range of geographical areas\, disciplinary backgrounds\,
  and research topics. Examples of potential topics include agroecology and 
 food justice issues\, state-building\, land and labor\, extractivist politi
 cs\, the gendered and racial dynamics of ongoing capitalist development\, a
 nd the political ecological histories of the global development project. Th
 e target audience for the series is graduate students and faculty intereste
 d in critical development studies both within the Cornell community as well
  as external scholars.\n\nSeminar co-organizers\, 2023-24: Christa Nuñez\, 
 María Boa\, Jenny Goldstein\, Mariah Doyle-Stephenson
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LOCATION:Warren Hall\, B73
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SUMMARY:Local Resistance to Climate Change Adaptation: Hindrance or Opportu
 nity?
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URL:https://events.cornell.edu/event/local_resistance_to_climate_change_ada
 ptation_hindrance_or_opportunity
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