Journal
ANTIPODE
Volume 51, Issue 1, Pages 295-315Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/anti.12421
Keywords
climate change; adaptation; anticipation; political ecology; development; Bangladesh
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- Social Science Research Council
- Fulbright-Hays Program
- National Science Foundation [DGE-1144153, 1459009]
- Direct For Social, Behav & Economic Scie
- Division Of Behavioral and Cognitive Sci [1459009] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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This paper explores the shaping of Bangladesh's southern coastal region, often framed as the most climate vulnerable place in the world, as a zone of climate crisis. As rising waters threaten communities inhabiting the low-lying coastal islands scattered across the deltaic plain, many within the government and donor community have identified shrimp aquaculture as a principal adaptation strategy. Shrimp aquaculture is integral to the dynamics of what I call anticipatory ruination, a discursive and material process of social and ecological destruction in anticipation of real or perceived threats. I elaborate anticipatory ruination as a process that both responds to and produces Bangladesh's climate crisis. I use this concept to explore not only the dynamics taking place in Bangladesh's delta region, but also the ways in which climate crisis is constituted more broadly.
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