Affective adaptation = effective transformation? Shifting the politics of climate change adaptation and transformation from the status quo

• Published in: Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. Climate change Vol. 13; no. 1
• Main Authors: Nightingale, Andrea J., Gonda, Noémi, Eriksen, Siri H.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Hoboken, USA John Wiley & Sons, Inc 01.01.2022
• Subjects: adaptation politics; affect; affective adaptation; climate change; effective transformation

Alarming rates of environmental change have catalyzed scholars to call for fundamental transformations in social‐political and economic relations. Yet cautionary tales about how power and politics are constitutive of these efforts fill the literature. We show how a relational framing of adaptation a...