Victims or Masters of Adaptation? How the Idea of Adaptation to Climate Change Travels Up and Down to a Village in Simanjiro, Maasailand Northern Tanzania

This chapter explores how the nascent idea of Adaptation to Climate Change is translated in northern Tanzania. By interrogating how non-governmental organisations and other actors in northern Tanzania adapt to the idea of adaptation itself we gain insight into the ways in which a new development paradigm comes into being. Based on fourteen months of multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork this chapter reveals the politics of adaptation that emerge in the encounter between global ideas of adaptation and what it means for different stakeholders on the ground.