Imaginaries of flood, attachment and testimony: The futures of Majuli

该项目探讨了高风险洪水地区的人口统计和物理未来，重点是印度阿萨姆邦Majuli居民的居住地。灾害政策和计划在很大程度上利用定量数据来绘制和减轻Majuli未来的洪水;然而，在了解居民对该地区未来风险的经验描述方面仍然存在差距。这种差距是有问题的，因为想象中的未来在很大程度上塑造了社区与地点的关系和决策过程，如决定迁移和何时迁移。该项目将包括一项内容丰富的深入研究，重点是个人和集体的证词，这些证词涉及Majuli（和类似岛屿）的洪水和基于地点的依恋。深入了解这些基于对地点的情感关系的未来可能性，对于帮助社区了解和更好地应对未来在高洪水风险地区生活和适应更广泛的气候变化方面不可避免的挑战至关重要。基于创新的未来主义方法，该项目不仅有望产生重要的规划信息，帮助了解Majuli的气候变化影响，而且还提供了一个框架，以便更好地了解和理解其他易发洪水地区的社区应对措施。研究背景：雅鲁藏布江流域的居民正面临着气候变化带来的严重后果，包括气温上升、年流量高峰和不可预测的季节性降水波动。此类事件迫使我们在反乌托邦的环境背景下思考气候未来。由亲环境态度引发的气候变化叙事展示了地方的情感力量。这种方法将挑战激进的科学方法，并开辟新形式的社区适应战略和规划对策。气候变化引起的流动性总是被预测为未来的问题，但气候危机不再是未来的威胁。根据灾害易发地区（在特定情况下是洪水）未来环境破坏的可能性，人们有意或无意地将自己推向更安全的地区，这反过来又有助于塑造这些空间。沿着，气候变化的政治经济学研究侧重于围绕气候变化的叙事的构建，从而如何应用它们。基于女权主义政治生态学的学者认为，对环境风险的看法取决于基于权力结构的人的社会定位。因此，这一方法的交叉透镜要求在未来的场所建设愿景中纳入基于性别、种族等的社会差异，以适应个人的经验。然而，文献中缺少的是塑造个人重新安置选择的基本要素和强大的视觉表现。本研究旨在填补这一空白，并研究社会经济和时间的经验，其中新的发展模式可以在未来的背景。此外，这将有助于进一步理解决策者和政府之间的总体广义结构，如经济或社会，往往与个人和主观的想象景观相矛盾。目的：拟议的研究的主要目标是构建和研究个人叙事的基础上，以及他们如何塑造定居模式的回报。此外，如果当地社区设想重新安置，该项目还旨在确定他们设想这样做的潜在地区。在快速变化的气候及其相关灾害（特别是洪水）之后，将对这些目标进行调查。

This project explores the demographics and physical futures of high-risk flood areas with a focus on lived imaginaries of inhabitants of Majuli in Assam, India. Disaster policies and plans draw heavily on quantitative data to map and mitigate against future flooding in Majuli; however, there remains a gap in understanding residents' experiential accounts of future risks in this region. This gap is problematic given that imagined futures heavily shape a community's relationship to place and decision-making processes such as the decision to migrate and when. This project will comprise a rich in-depth study focusing on individual and collective testimonies that address imaginaries of flood and place-based attachments in Majuli (and similar islands). Deeper insights into these imaginaries of possible futures based on the affective relation to place are vital to help communities understand and better respond to the inevitable challenges that lie ahead in terms of living in high flood-risk regions and adapting to wider climate change.Based on innovative futuristic methodologies, this project promises to yield not only important planning information to help understand the impacts of climate change in Majuli, but also provide a framework for better insights into, and understanding of, community-based responses in other flood-prone regions. Background of the study: The residents of Brahmaputra valley are facing severe consequences in the wake of climate change; ranging from temperature rises, annual peak flows and unpredictable seasonal precipitation fluctuations. Such events compel us to think through climate futures amid dystopian environmental contexts. Climate change narratives charged by a pro-environmental attitude demonstrate the affective power of places. This approach would challenge the radical scientific approach and open up new forms of community adaptation strategies and planning responses. Climate change-induced mobilities are always projected as issues of the future, however climate crisis is not a futuristic threat anymore. Based on future imaginaries of environmental destruction in disaster-prone areas (floods, in the given context), people knowingly or unknowingly push themselves towards safer areas which in turn help in shaping those spaces. Along with it, political economy studies of climate change focus on the construction of narratives around climate change and consequently how they are applied. Scholarship based on feminist political ecology argues that perceptions of environmental risks vary depending on the social positioning of the people based on power structures. The intersectional lens of this approach hence necessitates the inclusion of social differences based on gender, ethnicity, etc. in accommodating individual experiences in the future visionaries of place-making. However, missing from the literature are the imaginaries and robust visual representations that shape individual choices regarding resettlement. This research aims to fill this gap and study the socio-economic and temporal experiences within which new models of developments can be contextualized in the future. Further, this would help advance understanding of how overarching generalized constructions, like economy or society, among policymakers and governments, often contradict the individual and subjective imaginary landscapes. Objectives: The prime objective of the proposed research is to construct and study individual narratives based on imaginaries and how do they shape settlement patterns in return. Additionally, if the local communities envision resettlement, the project also aims to identify the potential pockets where they imagine doing it. The objectives will be investigated in the wake of rapidly changing climate and its associated disasters, specifically floods.