چکیده (انگلیسی):

Recent advances on power, politics, and pathways in climate change adaptation aim to re-frame decisionmaking
processes from development-as-usual to openings for transformational adaptation. This paper
offers empirical insights regarding decision-making politics in the context of collective learning through
participatory scenario building and
flexible
flood management and planning in the Eastern Brahmaputra
Basin of Assam, India. By foregrounding intergroup and intragroup power dynamics in such collective
learning spaces and how they intersect with existing micropolitics of adaptation on the ground, we
examine opportunities for and limitations to challenging entrenched authority and subjectivities. Our
results suggest that emancipatory agency can indeed emerge but is likely to be
fluid and multifaceted.
Community actors who are best positioned to resist higher-level domination may well be imbricated in
oppression at home. While participatory co-learning as embraced here might open some spaces for
transformation, others close down or remain shut