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Zenodo
2025
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17728664 |
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- This paper explores the intricate relationship between climate adaptation strategies, displacement dynamics, and evolving statecraft in the contested borderlands of the Sahel region. Faced with escalating environmental degradation, recurrent droughts, and resource scarcity, communities across the Sahel experience heightened precarity, which profoundly influences their livelihoods, mobility patterns, and interactions with state and non-state actors. We argue that climate adaptation efforts, often designed with top-down approaches or driven by external interventions, frequently contribute to a process of 'territorializing precarity'. This process involves the redefinition and control of space, resources, and populations, inadvertently exacerbating existing vulnerabilities and triggering new forms of displacement. Concurrently, statecraft in these peripheral zones is characterized by a complex interplay of formal governance, informal authority structures, and the often-militarized assertion of sovereignty, particularly in response to perceived security threats linked to climate-induced migration and resource conflicts. Through a critical examination of these interconnected phenomena, this study reveals how state actions, or inactions, in the name of security or development, can entrench rather than alleviate precarity, reshape human-environment relationships, and redefine the very nature of citizenship and belonging in the Sahel's fragile borderlands. The paper emphasizes the need for nuanced, locally-informed approaches that acknowledge the agency of affected populations and the complex political ecologies of these crucial regions.