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Articles | Volume 7, issue 1
Articles | Volume 7, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-7-89-2016
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Perspectives on contextual vulnerability in discourses of climate conflict

U. T. Okpara, L. C. Stringer, and A. J. Dougill

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We draw on the premise that climate conflict reflects a continuum of conditional forces that often coalesce around the notion of vulnerability to show how vulnerability is portrayed in the discursive formation of climate conflict relations. Comparing three discourse types, we illustrate that a turn towards contextual vulnerability thinking will help advance a constructivist theory-informed climate conflict scholarship that recognises historicity, specificity and variability.
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