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From disaster to devastation: drought as war in northern Uganda

cam.issuedOnline2018-08-06
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dc.contributor.authorBranch, AR
dc.contributor.orcidBranch, Adam [0000-0001-7907-2493]
dc.date.accessioned2018-11-26T14:50:31Z
dc.date.available2018-11-26T14:50:31Z
dc.date.issued2018-09-10
dc.description.abstractThis 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 environ- mental 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 his- tories of human engagement with the environment, including that of war.
dc.identifier.doi10.17863/CAM.33305
dc.identifier.eissn1467-7717
dc.identifier.issn1467-7717
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/285981
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherWiley-Blackwell
dc.publisher.urlhttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/disa.12303
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 International
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectAnthropocene
dc.subjectarmed conflict
dc.subjectclimate change
dc.subjectpost-colonialism
dc.subjectUganda
dc.titleFrom disaster to devastation: drought as war in northern Uganda
dc.typeArticle
dcterms.dateAccepted2018-06-26
prism.endingPageS327
prism.issueIdentifier52
prism.publicationDate2018
prism.publicationNameDisasters
prism.startingPageS306
prism.volume42
pubs.funder-project-idArts and Humanities Research Council (AH/P008232/1)
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate2018-09-10
rioxxterms.licenseref.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
rioxxterms.typeJournal Article/Review
rioxxterms.versionVoR
rioxxterms.versionofrecord10.1111/disa.12303

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