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Climate Finance for Renewable Energy Development in Fiji: Recognising Alternatives Amidst Troubling Solutions /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Climate Finance for Renewable Energy Development in Fiji: Recognising Alternatives Amidst Troubling Solutions // Kirsty Anantharajah.
Author:	Anantharajah, Kirsty,
Description:	1 electronic resource (244 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-06, Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International85-06B.
Subject:	Alternative energy. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=30856506
ISBN:	9798380866415

Climate Finance for Renewable Energy Development in Fiji: Recognising Alternatives Amidst Troubling Solutions /
Anantharajah, Kirsty,

Climate Finance for Renewable Energy Development in Fiji: Recognising Alternatives Amidst Troubling Solutions /Kirsty Anantharajah. - 1 electronic resource (244 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-06, Section: B.

This thesis explores the lived experiences of climate finance in Fiji. Alongside its Pacific neighbours, Fiji is contending with the escalating impacts of climate change. Against this backdrop, climate finance has emerged as a global response. Despite the promises of climate finance being a 'game changer' for climate affected geographies, its material and epistemic effects in communities remain unclear. As such the driving question of this thesis is: how does climate finance become constituted when deployed in Fiji? As this thesis will demonstrate, climate finance is not simply comprised of hard-won financial disbursements, but also constituted by regulation, governance, technologies, and competing epistemologies.Fiji is an international hub of climate finance activity. Despite this, Fiji specifically and the Pacific generally are underrepresented in the climate finance literature. Accordingly, little is known about how climate finance is materialising in practice among those who are at climate change's coalface. In response, the thesis draws on ethnographic work carried out in Fiji between 2018-2022, including 79 interviews and hundreds of hours of participant observation to facilitate a better understanding of how climate finance is experienced on the ground. In doing so, it aims to recentre climate finance's so-called targets and beneficiaries: the communities that are inheriting and navigating the unequal effects of a global climate crisis, as well as the contested financial solutions being offered to address them. The thesis deconstructs dominant knowledges and approaches that make up climate finance epistemologies and renders visible their consequences.As a thesis by publication, the articles that comprise this work aim to reach various research audiences concerned with climate finance. It is interdisciplinary, with papers drawing from and targeting journals in the fields of Science and Technology Studies (STS), Regulatory Governance, Energy Studies, Data Studies, and Pacific Studies. In particular, the thesis responds to calls to use STS in energy studies to examine: the role of agency amongst energy transitions; various loci of marginalisation surrounding climate finance and renewable energy; and the problem-solution binary around energy transitions. I also incorporate postcolonial and feminist technoscience analysis to highlight the situated experiences of these phenomena in Fiji. By exploring the various barriers to climate finance in Fiji, the analysis highlights how the inflexible modalities of climate finance struggle to flow through the landscapes presented by Fiji, the Pacific, and many of climate finance's target states. To illustrate how, the thesis troubles the solutions that climate finance purports to offer-from its discursive promises, regulatory answers, and emergent data projects. In unpacking them, it becomes clear that these solutions can usher unequal relations, cement axes of marginalisation, legitimate racial schema, and mask important contestations that cross concerns of technoscience, futures, and agency of Fiji's communities.One goal of deconstructing climate finance is to facilitate space for reconstruction. In recognition of the ongoing need for resources in climate-affected areas such as in Fiji, the thesis aims to move beyond a critique of climate finance by considering alternatives to its material and epistemic constitution. The final part of the thesis, guided by Pacific epistemologies and in partnership with Pacific collaborators, thus explores latent governance alternatives that are already enabling climate-aligned outcomes in Fiji. Further, using postcolonial and feminist technoscience to trouble some of climate finance's flawed technologies, the thesis recognises how Fijian communities are adapting, stretching, reworking, and fixing these 'solutions' in a daily practice of future making. Centring these forms of agency in Fiji, the analyses presented in this thesis by publication attest that climate finance can and must be remade.

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Alternative energy.
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