Turning Away from Wicked Ways
Christian Climate Change Politics in the Pacific Island Region
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2145103 |
|---|---|
| Authors | E Fache (0000-0003-4239-248X, Univ Paul Valéry Montpellier 3, IRD, UMR GRED 220, F34000, Montpellier, France, corresponding author), H Fair (0000-0002-1758-778X, Brunel University of London) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 233-253 |
| Publication date | 2020-07-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Anthropological Forum (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0066-4677 • E-ISSN: 1469-2902 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00664677.2020.1811953 |
| OpenAlex | W3093210100 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 26 |
Based on the cross-referencing of ethnographic materials collected in Fiji and Vanuatu, this article explores the diverse ways faith and climate change are connected together and how these connections are sustained and transformed over time. It does so through the prism of three ‘practices of assemblage’ identified by Tania Murray Li, namely forging alignments, authorising knowledge, and reassembling. It emphasises the partnership and combined efficacy of faith-based organisations and the Bible in these practices, while revealing the role of various other actants including God, NGOs, youth activists, cyclones, a Ni-Vanuatu canoe, and Fiji’s Presidency of COP23. This approach highlights the coexistence, in both Fiji and Vanuatu, of a religiously informed and adaptation-oriented environmental stewardship narrative, stressing human responsibility in the face of climate change, with a counter-narrative considering climate change as God’s business. This coexistence sometimes creates tensions between worldly and religious responses to climate change. These different religious perspectives of climate change can also be deployed as a political resource in nation-building processes, regional power relations, and international climate negotiations. In Oceania indeed, climate change appears as a new arena in which the inextricable entanglement of Christianity and politics is revealed
Archaeology · Christianity · Climate change · Environmental ethics · Faith · General partnership · Geography · Narrative · Negotiation · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Presidency · Social science · Sociology · Stewardship (theology) · Theology · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration · Ecology · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs · Law · Religion, Ecology, and Ethics
A Tsunami from the Mountains
Religion and Climate Change
Custom and the Way of the Land
Priests on the Shore
Three stories of Noah
Eco-theological Responses to Climate Change in Oceania
Losing ground? Tuvalu, the greenhouse effect and the garbage can
Climate change, migration and adaptation in Funafuti, Tuvalu
Klaemet jenj worlds. Approaching climate change and knowledge creation in Vanuatu
Introduction
Tsunami Warnings
The 2014 Fiji Elections and the Methodist Church
Disaster Preparedness and the Abeyance of Agency
Roots of Land and Church
The Social Life of Blame in the Anthropocene
Practices of assemblage and community forest management
Introduction
The Impact of Faith-Based Narratives on Climate Change Adaptation in Narikoso, Fiji
| Unique citing works | 6 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2024 (5) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |