Planetary Specters : Race, Migration, and Climate Change in the Twenty-First Century /

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"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ahuja, Neel, 1980- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2021]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Social ecology.
Human beings > Migrations.
Global environmental change > Social aspects.
Environmental refugees.
Emigration and immigration > Environmental aspects.
Climatic changes > Economic aspects.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The specter of insecurity
  • Race, insecurity, and the invention of the climate migrant
  • The changing wealth of nations: Oil, labor, and racial capitalism
  • From insecurity to adaptation: Bangladesh, human capital, and the figure of the climate refugee
  • Weather as war: Race, disability, and environmental determinism in the Syrian climate war thesis
  • Conclusion.

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