Abstract
Popular climate change narratives often identify climate change as the prime trigger of all environmental hazards. Consistent and harmonised framing of this relationship by public media, epistemic communities and established institutions continually shapes and reinforces such narratives. These dominant narratives may present an image of an apocalyptic future beyond the coping capacity of ‘climate victims’ (often identified – implicitly or explicitly – as the poor and those living in the majority work) while rendering climate change responsible for all disaster-related miseries. Such ‘doomsday’, ‘victimhood’, and ‘common villain’ strings of a convergent narrative use selective and occasional recourse to science to support a generic understanding of the challenge of climate change. Drawing on examples of recent environmental stresses in Bangladesh, we call for local accountability and highlight the ‘scale effect’ of politics of vulnerability framing.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 479-487 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| Journal | International Development Planning Review |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| Early online date | 5 Oct 2023 |
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| Publication status | Published - Oct 2023 |
Funding
The authors are are indebted to the Excellence Cluster ‘CLICCS – Climate, Climate Change, and Society’ (EXC 2037, Project 390683824) for hosting the presentation of the viewpoint and accommodating this in the special issue. Thus, the authors acknowledge the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation), who funded the CLISEC Workshop on Climate-Security-Nexus and Peacebuilding in the Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability (CEN) at Universität Hamburg, Germany, December 2021.
| Funders | Funder number |
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| Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft | |
| Universität Hamburg |