Planetary specters : race, migration, and climate change in the twenty-first century / Neel Ahuja.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ahuja, Neel, 1980- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human beings--Migrations.

Human beings.

Environmental refugees.

Emigration and immigration--Environmental aspects.

Emigration and immigration.

Climatic changes--Economic aspects.

Climatic changes.

Global environmental change--Social aspects.

Global environmental change.

Social ecology.

Physical Description:

210 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm

Other Title:

Race, migration, and climate change in the 21st century

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2021]

Summary:

"Neel Ahuja traces the development of "climate migrant" discourses in public media and policy over the past decade, arguing that journalists, security experts, politicians, and NGOs have often oversimplified climate change and obfuscated the complex processes that have led to mass and supposedly environmental-change driven migration. To understand the systemic reasons for mass migration, Ahuja argues, it is necessary to reframe climate disaster as interlinked with the history of capitalism and the global politics of race, wherein climate change exacerbates existing issues such as land displacement, labor exploitation, debt finance, and pollution"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: The Specter of Insecurity

ch. One Race, Insecurity, and the Invention of the Climate Migrant

ch. Two The Changing Wealth of Nations

Oil, Labor, and Racial Capitalism

ch. Three From Insecurity to Adaptation

Bangladesh, Human Capital, and the Figure of the Climate Refugee

ch. Four Weather as War

Race, Disability, and Environmental Determinism in the Syrian Climate War Thesis.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781469664460

1469664461

9781469664477

146966447X

OCLC:

1244882201