Journal article
Storytelling climate change – Causality and temporality in the REDD regime in Papua New Guinea
S Pascoe, W Dressler, M Minnegal
Geoforum | PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD | Published : 2021
Abstract
Climate change is shaped and understood through assumptions of causality and temporality that enable and constrain feasible approaches to environmental governance, approaches that may reproduce inequalities. Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) provides an entry point to examine the intersecting assumptions and politics around climate change and how it is managed. Actors in the REDD+ regime promote particular assumptions about the causality and temporality of climate change, which are often privileged over local ways of being and knowing. Through ten months of ethnographic fieldwork with communities implicated in the Central Suau REDD+ Pilot Project in the Mil..
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Funding Acknowledgements
We would like to acknowledge the two anonymous reviewers for their insightful feedback and suggestions. The lead author would also like to recognise the people of Suau who have shared their lives and stories, whose knowledge forms the basis of this article - agutoi lai lai. I am also thankful to the institutions, agencies and NGOs that participated in the ethnography and the staff who engaged in the research. Thanks to Dr Andrea Babon for her support and sharing her knowledge of REDD+ in PNG. Early versions of this article were formed in conversation with the Nature and Environmental Change research group at the Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen - thanks to A/Prof Stine KrOijer, A/Prof Cecilie Rubow, A/Prof Quentin Gausset and Prof Morten Axel Pedersen - and the Nature and Society research group at Aarhus University - thanks to Dr Maya Pasgaard. Thanks also to Dr Will Smith for reading the paper. This research was undertaken with the support of the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research through a Dissertation Field-work Grant (Gr. 9471) and the Australian Government Research Training Program. The University of Melbourne Faculty of Arts provided additional funding through their PhD Fieldwork Scheme, as did the Faculty of Science through a Science Abroad Travelling Scholarship.