From disaster to devastation: drought as war in northern Uganda
From disaster to devastation: drought as war in northern Uganda
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DOI：
10.1111/disa.12303
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发表时间：
2018-10-01
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影响因子：
3.2
通讯作者：
Branch, Adam
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作者：
Branch, Adam
在处理气候变化的破坏性后果时，本文提出了从灾难的概念到破坏的概念的转变。它认为，今天，关于气候变化灾难的讨论已经占据主导地位，目前的灾难被视为未来大范围气候灾难的预兆，这是全球性质动荡的产物。这篇论文认为，人们需要超越气候变化灾难论述所依赖的一系列二分法：未来/过去、全球/当地、自然/社会。将气候灾难定义为全球气候变化的产物，而冲突则是这些气候灾害的产物，这是为了在受灾害影响的社区中排除环境暴力的形式和气候变化的经历。通过对乌干达干旱的探讨，论文认为，应将灾难理解为人类与环境，包括战争的历史所造成的持续的、长期的、多尺度的破坏过程。
This paper proposes a shift from the concept of disaster to one of devastation when dealing with the destructive consequences of climate change. It argues that today, a discourse of climate-change disaster has become dominant, in which present disasters are seen as harbingers of a future of widespread climate disaster, products of a global nature in upheaval. The paper contends that one needs to go beyond the series of dichotomies that the climate-change disaster discourse relies upon: future/past, global/local, natural/social. To frame climate disaster as a product of global climate change, and conflict the product of those climate disasters, is to occlude the forms of environmental violence and experience of climate change among disaster-affected communities. Through an exploration of the drought in Uganda, the paper asserts that disaster should be understood as embedded within ongoing, longstanding, multiscalar processes of devastation produced by histories of human engagement with the environment, including that of war.