Med nya glasögon: Den strukturella kopplingen mellan klimatförändring och konflikt
(2023) STVA23 20231Department of Political Science
- Abstract
- This thesis aims to deepen the understanding surrounding the connection between climate change and conflict through a qualitative analysis of Kenya – with a main focus on pastoralist communities. Theoretically, it aims to – on an individual level – explain why scarcity and abundance theory is not enough to understand how and in what capacity climate change leads to conflict, and what affects on an individual level it applies. Empirically, it studies three typical scarcity lines of thought and cause of conflict: drought leads to competition; flooding destroys agriculture which leads to food shortage; and forced migration. Through a congruence analysis the thesis aims to find if these hypotheses are applicable in Kenya. Further it brings... (More)
- This thesis aims to deepen the understanding surrounding the connection between climate change and conflict through a qualitative analysis of Kenya – with a main focus on pastoralist communities. Theoretically, it aims to – on an individual level – explain why scarcity and abundance theory is not enough to understand how and in what capacity climate change leads to conflict, and what affects on an individual level it applies. Empirically, it studies three typical scarcity lines of thought and cause of conflict: drought leads to competition; flooding destroys agriculture which leads to food shortage; and forced migration. Through a congruence analysis the thesis aims to find if these hypotheses are applicable in Kenya. Further it brings postcolonialism and feminism as critical, structural underlying theories, to create an opposition toward the established scarcity and abundance, as well as neo-malthusianism theory. We find that it is possible to find connections between the classical lines of thought within scarcity and abundance, but that climate change should not be seen as a variable, but rather a mechanism, which propels conflict further. Instead, the underlying patriarchal and colonial structures – borders created during the colonial era which create conflict when pastoralist communities must migrate to find water, political instability, the idea of abundance and conflict as inherently colonialist, the “othering” of Kenya as the West creates a “us” versus “them”, and the disregard of diverging types of violence – must be brought into the discussion to understand the connection between climate change and conflict fully. (Less)
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- author
- von Geijer, Ellen LU and Tamanivalu-Moritz, Agnes LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- STVA23 20231
- year
- 2023
- type
- L2 - 2nd term paper (old degree order)
- subject
- keywords
- Key words: Climate change, Conflict, Kenya, Scarcity, Abundance, Postcolonialism, Feminism
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 9115158
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- 2023-08-18 16:15:43
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abstract = {{This thesis aims to deepen the understanding surrounding the connection between climate change and conflict through a qualitative analysis of Kenya – with a main focus on pastoralist communities. Theoretically, it aims to – on an individual level – explain why scarcity and abundance theory is not enough to understand how and in what capacity climate change leads to conflict, and what affects on an individual level it applies. Empirically, it studies three typical scarcity lines of thought and cause of conflict: drought leads to competition; flooding destroys agriculture which leads to food shortage; and forced migration. Through a congruence analysis the thesis aims to find if these hypotheses are applicable in Kenya. Further it brings postcolonialism and feminism as critical, structural underlying theories, to create an opposition toward the established scarcity and abundance, as well as neo-malthusianism theory. We find that it is possible to find connections between the classical lines of thought within scarcity and abundance, but that climate change should not be seen as a variable, but rather a mechanism, which propels conflict further. Instead, the underlying patriarchal and colonial structures – borders created during the colonial era which create conflict when pastoralist communities must migrate to find water, political instability, the idea of abundance and conflict as inherently colonialist, the “othering” of Kenya as the West creates a “us” versus “them”, and the disregard of diverging types of violence – must be brought into the discussion to understand the connection between climate change and conflict fully.}},
author = {{von Geijer, Ellen and Tamanivalu-Moritz, Agnes}},
language = {{swe}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Med nya glasögon: Den strukturella kopplingen mellan klimatförändring och konflikt}},
year = {{2023}},
}