Re-conceptualizing climate maladaptation: Complementing social-ecological interactions with relational socionatures https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959378024001146 Sameer H. Shah, Leila M. Harris, K.J. Joy , Trevor Birkenholtz & Idowu Ajibade A case of the Government of Maharashtra’s (India) Jalyukt Shivar Abhiyan, a program aimed at increasing water conservation to “free” 20,000 villages from drought impacts. India demonstrates the necessity of relational approaches.
A relational ontology considers how “matter,” “discourse,” and “society” co-produce one another to such an extent that any separation between them is impossible . These co-constitutions produce provisional socionatural assemblages or formations, which themselves have meaning.. The relations between facts, technologies, and scientific data are assembled into discourses, which have agency and meaning by virtue of their capacities to secure climate financing