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DOI	10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2015.09.006
	Responding to climate variability and change in dryland Kenya: The role of illicit coping strategies in the politics of adaptation
	Mosberg M.; Eriksen S.H.
发表日期	2015
ISSN	0959-3780
卷号	35
英文摘要	This article investigates the role of 'illicit' activities in shaping vulnerability dynamics and exemplifies the role of subjectivities and authority in the politics of adaptation. Through drawing on data from several areas in Kitui County in Kenya, the article shows how people are able to use illicit strategies very differently, with differential outcomes on their vulnerability. We suggest that this dynamic has important political dimensions in terms of how authority, legitimacy, subjectivity and social status are reproduced or challenged through the daily practice of how individuals and households within a village engage in strategies to manage shocks and change. We use the term 'illicit' here to emphasize that some activities carried out to cope with shocks and change in the study area, namely bush-meat hunting, home-brewing, charcoal production, prostitution, forest uses and theft, are actually subject to legal or social sanctions and repercussions because they are counter to statutory and/or customary law and moral codes. What is seen as socially acceptable locally (and by whom) however, and what sanctions can be expected, is malleable as a result of a dynamic interplay between statutory and customary law and social norms, subjectivity and environmental conditions, which do not always coincide. People may use this to their advantage differentially. Engaging in illicit activities can alter subjectivity and authority, as people are ascribed roles characterized as 'immoral' or 'criminal', which in turn may affect their social standing and authority in the community. Illicit strategies are, however, also in part an arena where people assume authority and control over their own circumstances and resist rules of what is socially acceptable or not. Longer-term implications of the illicit coping strategies identified in this article were found to be contradictory and unpredictable, multifaceted and complex, particularly in terms of social differentiation and vulnerability. Coping strategies that might make a person or household less vulnerable on one time scale, might make them more vulnerable on another, thereby illustrating that adaptation is not a linear nor static process. © 2015 Elsevier Ltd.
英文关键词	Adaptation; Authority; Illicit coping strategies; Kenya; Subjectivities; Vulnerability
学科领域	climate change; coping strategy; differentiation; environmental politics; land cover; regional politics; social status; strategic approach; vulnerability; Kenya; Kenya; Kitui
语种	英语
scopus关键词	climate change; coping strategy; differentiation; environmental politics; land cover; regional politics; social status; strategic approach; vulnerability; Kenya; Kenya; Kitui
来源期刊	Global Environmental Change
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/117426
作者单位	Department of International Environment and Development Studies (Noragric), Norwegian University of Life Sciences, P.O. Box 5003, Ås, NO-1432, Norway
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Mosberg M.,Eriksen S.H.. Responding to climate variability and change in dryland Kenya: The role of illicit coping strategies in the politics of adaptation[J],2015,35.
APA	Mosberg M.,&Eriksen S.H..(2015).Responding to climate variability and change in dryland Kenya: The role of illicit coping strategies in the politics of adaptation.Global Environmental Change,35.
MLA	Mosberg M.,et al."Responding to climate variability and change in dryland Kenya: The role of illicit coping strategies in the politics of adaptation".Global Environmental Change 35(2015).