What is climate reductionism and how does it fail to address the powerful causes of precarity for agrarian households in South Asia?

This article is a great example of how discourses/strategies of ‘adaptation’ act like an ‘anti-politics’ machine.

A (long) thread 🧵

https://twitter.com/MongabayIndia/status/1558974512640712709

1/n To begin with what is climate reductionism? Mike Hulme in is seminal 2011 essay points to the demise of environmental determinism (and climate determinism) which used to be an ideological wellspring of colonial perceptions of the world and its subsequent domination

A long thread 📜on being an immigrant, a ECR and a parent in Aotearoa New Zealand, though I believe these experiences echo others across the world. #immigrant #precarious #AcademicTwitter #parent My son Manu was born 7 days ago. However, since I am not on a permanent contract, I did not get any paid parental leave. Instead HR offered me the ‘choice’ of taking 2 weeks of unpaid leave. The word ‘choice’ here is key...

A story about out colonial present.
1) In January I was selected as one of the final two applicants for an assistant professorship at a dutch university.
2) They asked me to come to campus for a final interview. So basically they asked me to fly for 24 hours ( I live in Brazil) For an interview that would last 40 minutes.
3) So I spent 2 days and 200$ getting my visa for Europe. This required, as all us ‘lower caste’ people of the earth know, bank statements, health insurance, hotel bookings, lease documents etc.