Rethinking identity in adaptation research: Performativity and livestock keeping practices in the Kenyan drylands
Julia Wernersson
World Development, 2018, vol. 108, issue C, 283-295
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Adaptation research often uses identity categories. This article argues that a performativity approach allows us to understand identity in ways that are important for adaptation. Performativity sees identity as constructed through practices in an ongoing process of negotiation and renegotiation. Individuals and groups can thus be understood as having the agency to redefine identity by changing their everyday practices; changed practices, in turn, can influence the construction of identity.
Keywords: Category; Agency; Pastoralism; Practice; Africa; Kenya (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2018.02.010
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