Human-made climate change causes loss and damage (L&D) throughout the planet. From a decolonial perspective, disproportionate vulnerabilities to L&D emerge due to intersectional inequalities, historic impoverishment, and environmental degradation from colonialism and capitalism. These root causes are blurred in international climate negotiations. Since the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) first raised the call for international financing for L&D, it took thirty years to put funding for L&D on the agenda of the negotiations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). As the Conference of the Parties in 2022 (COP27) brought forth the decision to establish a fund for L&D, the debate on disproportionate responsibility and vulnerability gains momentum. Against this background, the PhD project aims to understand how the emerging governmentality of L&D under UNFCCC impacts the conception and the politics of L&D at multiple sites. I, therefore, strive to analyze which effects the imposed rationalities, subjectivities, and technologies of governing L&D have in the Global South. Performing a multi-sited ethnography, I follow the discourse(s) on L&D from the international climate negotiations in national, local, and intermediate sites. Furthermore, where there is L&D in a situation of marginalization or socially constructed vulnerability, there is also resistance. To account for the multiple resistance against a hegemonial governmentality of L&D under the UNFCCC regime, I understand the concept of resistance as the act of rejecting imposed subjectivities, ontologies, and epistemologies. Being guided by Foucault’s discourse and governmentality theory, the concept of counter-conduct helps to reveal resistance against impositions and violent objectivization. Consequentially, the PhD project targets to show the mutual power-knowledge-dynamics that operate from the international to the local across sites and negotiate the reality of L&D.

• Politischer Umgang mit den Folgeschäden des Klimawandels (Loss & Damage)
• Dekoloniale und postkoloniale Perspektiven auf Klimagerechtigkeit
• Politikwissenschaftliche Diskursanalyse nach Foucault
• Soziale Bewegungen und Klimaaktivismus in Lateinamerika