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

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 suppos...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Ahuja, Neel, 1980- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2021]
Subjects:	Human beings > Migrations. Environmental refugees. Emigration and immigration > Environmental aspects. Climatic changes > Economic aspects. Global environmental change > Social aspects. Social ecology.

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.