The Impact of Faith-Based Narratives on Climate Change Adaptation in Narikoso, Fiji

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2145104
AutoresAmanda Bertana (0000-0003-4582-3855, Southern Connecticut State University, autor correspondente)
Ano2020
Volume30
Fascículo3
Páginas254-273
Data de publicação2020-07-02
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAnthropological Forum (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0066-4677 • E-ISSN: 1469-2902
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00664677.2020.1812050
OpenAlexW3092752282
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas9
Referências citadas43

Most research on climate change in South Pacific island communities has privileged people’s observations of physical environmental change with less attention paid to how people interpret the causes of these changes. Increasingly, more studies are focusing on how communities are receiving messages about environmental degradation, and from whom they are receiving them. This case study draws upon ethnographic research conducted in November 2015 in Narikoso on Ono Island in Fiji’s Kadavu Group. This village was in the process of relocating inland as a response to shoreline erosion and severe coastal flooding. By employing data drawn from interviews with government actors, religious leaders, and residents of Narikoso village along with fieldnotes from participant observation, this paper examines how village residents interpreted coastal flooding and shoreline erosion according to the biblical story of Noah’s Ark alongside a secular narrative of climate change. I conclude by showing the unique challenges these worldviews had on the community’s decision to relocate

Archaeology · Climate change · Coastal erosion · Ethnography · Faith · Fieldnotes · Geography · Narrative · Participant observation · Shore · Sociology · Anthropology · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration · Disaster Management and Resilience · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs · Oceanography