Jamie Haverkamp

Jamie Haverkamp

Research Fellow and Lecturer
Anthropology & Environmental Policy
University of Maine

My research on climate change adaptation is squarely situated within the domain of climate justice. Beyond paying attention to uneven distributions of climate impacts among historically marginalized communities, my work aims to understand the ways in which formal adaptation responses (policy and development) threaten to reproduce the social vulnerabilities and inequalities which they intend to redress. Ethnographically, I trace the (re)production of social inequality and vulnerability through climate resilient development in the Peruvian Andes, and argue that climate adaptation in this context constitutes a governing rationality that justifies the continuation of historic land grabbing and the coloniality of power in the Cordillera Blanca.

2020 TOPIC TBD

2020 TOPIC TBD