'I will continue to fight them': local knowledge, everyday resistance and adaptation to climate change in semi-arid Tanzania.

This chapter argues that the tensions also represent a bigger challenge, namely that while studies of local knowledge (LK) and adaptation have been good at bringing out what can potentially be achieved by integration of local knowledge, there has been less focus and attention in the adaptation literature on how local knowledge is situated within the everyday lives of people who tackle climate change amidst a range of other livelihood shocks and stressors. Illustrated by a case study in semiarid Tanzania, this chapter shows how individuals and households use LK and science, intermixing and also circumventing rules and regulations, much of which has the nature of everyday resistance- challenging of internal and external norms, and using scripts from local knowledge to justify their actions that (as they are often aware) are not sustainable, nor likely to help them in the long run. The chapter explores how farmers, faced with what people perceived as declining and more unpredictable rainfall, little or no external support and less access to land, are able to mobilize resources to navigate droughts.