Anger at those responsible for climate change.Chaos and injustice after climate-exacerbated disasters.Higher demand for people smugglers and armed border guards.More invidious restrictions on resources.More environmentally inhospitable areas.Food, water, and energy crises that undermine state capacity and legitimacy.This essay identifies six climate-related factors that will create openings and drive demand for VNSAs, a category that includes de facto states, insurgencies, criminal groups, warlord-led groups, private security companies, paramilitaries, and terrorists. Nonstate actors could respond to these developments by using violence, either to influence state behavior or to replace the role of the state in certain areas. In short, this is because climate impacts can impair governance in ways that reduce state capacity and legitimacy, intensify competition for resources and livable territory, and necessitate invidious policies. Climate change and the responses to it are likely to provide more openings for violent nonstate actors (VNSAs) to exert power.
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Spoiler alert: Important details of the novel are revealed below In the end, Dana is faced with the dilemma of having to kill Rufus herself to prevent the monster in him from taking full shape – but then again doing this means she may never get to exist in the future. It turns out this little boy is her ancestor and that she has to travel more often into the past to save him every time he’s in trouble if she ever is born in the future.ĭana takes on this task – however physically and emotionally daunting it is – and saves, educates, and cares for him, but it wasn’t long until she realizes that his ancestor is growing into a monster. Suddenly, she falls sick and wakes up in the past, where she has to save a little boy from drowning. 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Lamerichs readily points out that this has less to do with any sort of “national character” and more to do with the fact that “these fan cultures are individual events with their own ecologies” (158). (156)Įssentially, the fan practices and productions on display in anime conventions are different in different countries. The local iterations of cosplay and doujinshi, which may seem homogeneous activities, are read as manifestations that are firmly anchored in particular traditions. I argue that anime fandom is not easily understood as a global phenomenon but rather is composed of different, heterogeneous values and communities. Nicolle Lamerichs, in a 2013 essay titled The Cultural Dynamic of Doujinshi and Cosplay: Local Anime Fandom in Japan, USA and Europe, writes: |