More-than-climate politics in rurality: Normative pathways for living with loss and vanishing continuity in place
研究通过西澳大利亚一个乡村小镇的参与式方法，探讨居民在火灾、干旱等气候灾害下如何权衡取舍，提出基于价值和地方的适应路径，以应对不可挽回的失落并重塑社区连续性。
This study examines how values- and place-based adaptation pathway planning offers a relational and experimental counter-process to state-driven climate risk assessments and resilience imperatives. By employing an innovative, iterative, and participatory methodology in a regional tree-changer town in Western Australia, we investigate social and environmental dilemmas of precarity, continuity, and hope and illustrate how residents engage in difficult trade-offs to decide what to save and what to let go against the backdrop of increasing fires, drought, and heat. We find that the affective dimensions of lived values are under distress and that a more-than-climate politics is a compelling scholarly lens for examining diverging temporalities of loss in rural settings where some cherished aspects of lives and lifestyles will not be salvageable. Climatic hazards, alongside changing demographics, strains to community cohesion, and governmental neglect, narrow desirable pathways for restorative futures. We conclude by advocating for relational knowledge and stewardship approaches in rural adaptation and embodied resilience-in-the-making that counteract current modes of climate governmentality. Such relationality validates place-based values and more-than-human harm while also remedying ongoing injustices through careful, deliberative experiments to prefigure normative community trajectories. • Australia's climate policy needs normative outlooks and resilience-in-the-making. • Rural residents envision desirable futures and embrace social-ecological losses. • Values-driven pathways allow space for deliberating more-than-human flourishing. • Social cohesion and relational stewardship in place contribute to rural continuity. • Affective methodologies cultivate spaces for new knowledge politics in adaptation.