Adaptation as a political arena: Interrogating sedentarization as climate change adaptation in Central Vietnam

摘要: Abstract Framings of climate change adaptation are increasingly being contested with implications for how is understood and carried out. Global framings seen as producing a universalizing, technocratic domain, an increasing body literature de-frames these, highlighting their inherent assumptions biases arguing better situating within particular historical power dynamics. This article takes the logical next step, proposing reframing political arena, finds that determine scope, targets tools adaptation. It uses problematics government approach, illustrated through case mandatory sedentarization boat dwellers in Vietnam, which officials present historicizes politicizes current adaptation, demonstrates vulnerability produced by interventions identifies emic, rather than global, rationalities heavily frame initiatives. By contrasting it accounts same sedentarizations cleave more closely to dominant framings, illustrates arena provides accurate basis upon engage impetus intervention. These findings caution against drawing uncritically on