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Pluralising Climate Change and Migration: An Argument in Favour of Open Futures
Author(s) -
Baldwin Andrew
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
geography compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.587
H-Index - 65
ISSN - 1749-8198
DOI - 10.1111/gec3.12145
Subject(s) - argument (complex analysis) , futures contract , relation (database) , climate change , neoliberalism (international relations) , sovereignty , political science , sociology , downscaling , political economy , positive economics , economics , law , computer science , politics , ecology , biochemistry , chemistry , database , financial economics , biology
Abstract This paper contextualises the relation between climate change and human migration using the concepts of neoliberalism, sovereignty and otherness. The paper is intended to provide a general account of climate change and migration research, which seeks to extend understanding of the relation beyond a focus on policy and policy‐relevant research. The argument is that because the relation between climate change and migration is so vast, touching on so many aspects of life, the debate on climate change and migration needs to be pluralised. This is especially the case given the future‐conditional nature of the relation between climate change and migration.