Climatic Disasters and Radical Politics in Southern Pakistan

The Non-linear Connection

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3948154
AutoresAyesha Siddiqi (0000-0003-4114-9824, King's College London, autor correspondente)
Ano2014
Volume19
Fascículo4
Páginas885-910
Data de publicação2014-10-02
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoGeopolitics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1465-0045 • E-ISSN: 1557-3028
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14650045.2014.920328
OpenAlexW2106381611
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas27

This paper is a local level examination of the political spaces and opportunities that arise for radical political agents in the aftermath of a climatic disaster. It explores the theoretical argument that disasters break the social contract between the state and disaster-affected communities by opening political space for change. The empirical work is based on a large-scale flooding disaster that affected southern Pakistan in 2010 and 2011 and caused international concern around increased Islamist mobilisation through their disaster relief programmes. The case study investigates the extent to which the climatic disaster opened political space for the radical Islamist group, the Jamaat-ud-Dawa, to mobilise. Based on fieldwork conducted in three districts of Sindh in southern Pakistan, this paper demonstrates that climatic disasters are able to impact radical politics. This connection is not linear or causal but rather very complex. It further explains why this type of inquiry is relevant in order to understand climate change and security

Political economy · Political science · Political violence · Politics · Sociology · Disaster Management and Resilience · Law · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East · Transboundary Water Resource Management