From disaster to devastation: drought as war in northern Uganda
cam.issuedOnline | 2018-08-06 | |
cam.orpheus.success | Thu Jan 30 10:53:54 GMT 2020 - The item has an open VoR version. | |
dc.contributor.author | Branch, AR | |
dc.contributor.orcid | Branch, Adam [0000-0001-7907-2493] | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-11-26T14:50:31Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-11-26T14:50:31Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2018-09-10 | |
dc.description.abstract | 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 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.doi | 10.17863/CAM.33305 | |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1467-7717 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1467-7717 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/285981 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.publisher | Wiley-Blackwell | |
dc.publisher.url | https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/disa.12303 | |
dc.rights | Attribution 4.0 International | |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | |
dc.subject | Anthropocene | |
dc.subject | armed conflict | |
dc.subject | climate change | |
dc.subject | post-colonialism | |
dc.subject | Uganda | |
dc.title | From disaster to devastation: drought as war in northern Uganda | |
dc.type | Article | |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2018-06-26 | |
prism.endingPage | S327 | |
prism.issueIdentifier | 52 | |
prism.publicationDate | 2018 | |
prism.publicationName | Disasters | |
prism.startingPage | S306 | |
prism.volume | 42 | |
pubs.funder-project-id | Arts and Humanities Research Council (AH/P008232/1) | |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2018-09-10 | |
rioxxterms.licenseref.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | |
rioxxterms.versionofrecord | 10.1111/disa.12303 |
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