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Climate migrants and new identities? The geopolitics of embracing or rejecting mobility

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posted on 2023-05-18, 11:58 authored by Farbotko, C, Elaine StratfordElaine Stratford, Lazrus, H
New evidence is emerging to suggest that climate change mobility is giving effect to changing forms of island identity among Tuvaluans and i-Kiribati. This nascent shift prompts a number of questions addressed in this paper. What, for example, does climate change migration mean for island identity and its geographic performance? How does the spatialization of identity inform shared experiences of climate change, and how does identity assist in the formation of shared positions from which to advocate for change? Drawing on discourses of sedentarism and mobilization among Tuvaluan and i-Kiribati, we explore performances of identity related to climate change being fashioned and refashioned in different contexts.

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Publication title

Social and Cultural Geography

Volume

17

Issue

4

Pagination

533-552

ISSN

1464-9365

Department/School

School of Geography, Planning and Spatial Sciences

Publisher

Routledge Taylor & Francis Ltd

Place of publication

4 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, England, Oxfordshire, Ox14 4Rn

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© 2015 Crown Copyright in the Commonwealth of Australia

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Expanding knowledge in human society

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