Climate Mobilities and the Role of Borders and Bordering

This talk discusses the role of borders, and processes of (re)bordering, associated with climate mobilities research and policymaking. Drawing on empirical examples from different world contexts - ranging from the Pacific to Western Africa - this includes exploring how border-mobility relations and associated processes of bordering might be changed or rethought in a changing climate. Overall, the objective is to signal how a critical understanding of bordering further exposes classifications of so-called internal or international climate migration, of the un/deserving migrant, of the environmental un/privileged; and to demonstrate how climate im/mobilities themselves feed into, resist, reshape, or even reimagine processes of (re)bordering. 

Guest Speaker:

Professor Ingrid Boas

Ingrid Boas is a Professor at the Environmental Policy Group at Wageningen University and Research. Ingrid’s research is based in the fields of environmental change, mobilities, and governance. Currently her focus is the political and power dimensions of climate im/mobilities. This is informed by two research programmes that she is leading: one on climate mobilities in the Bengal, West African, and Pacific borderlands; another on mobile forms of cultural heritage in relation to the impacts of climate change for (semi-)nomadic indigenous livelihoods. She is co-founder of the Environmental and Climate Mobilities Network and serves as an expert on climate mobility for the EU, the Dutch government, the UN and several NGOs.

Sponsored by the Society for Legal Scholars (SLS)

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Dr Christopher Szabla

Christopher Szabla
christopher.j.szabla@durham.ac.uk