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Turning Away from Wicked Ways: Christian Climate Change Politics in the Pacific Island Region
Anthropological Forum ( IF 0.9 ) Pub Date : 2020-07-02 , DOI: 10.1080/00664677.2020.1811953
Elodie Fache 1 , Hannah Fair 2, 3
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ABSTRACT 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.

中文翻译:

远离恶道:太平洋岛屿地区的基督教气候变化政治

摘要 基于对斐济和瓦努阿图收集的民族志材料的交叉参考,本文探讨了信仰和气候变化联系在一起的多种方式,以及这些联系如何随着时间的推移而持续和转变。它通过 Tania Murray Li 确定的三个“组装实践”的棱镜来实现,即锻造对齐、授权知识和重新组装。它强调了基于信仰的组织和圣经在这些实践中的伙伴关系和综合功效,同时揭示了包括上帝、非政府组织、青年活动家、旋风、尼瓦努阿图独木舟和斐济担任 COP23 主席在内的各种其他行为者的作用。这种方法强调了斐济和瓦努阿图同时存在着一种以宗教为导向和以适应为导向的环境管理叙事,强调人类在面对气候变化时的责任,并反驳将气候变化视为上帝的事。这种共存有时会造成世俗和宗教对气候变化的反应之间的紧张关系。这些对气候变化的不同宗教观点也可以作为国家建设进程、区域权力关系和国际气候谈判中的政治资源加以部署。事实上,在大洋洲,气候变化似乎是一个新的舞台,在这个舞台上,基督教与政治之间的不可分割的纠缠得以显露。这些对气候变化的不同宗教观点也可以作为国家建设进程、区域权力关系和国际气候谈判中的政治资源加以部署。事实上,在大洋洲,气候变化似乎是一个新的舞台,在这个舞台上,基督教和政治之间的不可分割的纠缠得以显露。这些对气候变化的不同宗教观点也可以作为国家建设进程、区域权力关系和国际气候谈判中的政治资源加以部署。事实上,在大洋洲,气候变化似乎是一个新的舞台,在这个舞台上,基督教与政治之间的不可分割的纠缠得以显露。
更新日期:2020-07-02
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