Planetary Specters
Race, Migration, and Climate Change in the Twenty-First Century
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Word Count
56,000 words, Guess
Page Count
224 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-139781469664477
- ISBN-10146966447X
- Library of Congress Control Number2021007907
- OCLC Control Number1244882201
- Better World Books9781469664477
and 2 more
- Better World BooksP8-CUF-157
- Open LibraryOL34131826M
Classifications
- LCCGN370 .A516 2021
Description
"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 supposedly environmental-change driven migration. To understand the systemic reasons for mass migration, Ahuja argues, it is necessary to reframe climate disaster as interlinked with the history of capitalism and the global politics of race, wherein climate change exacerbates existing issues such as land displacement, labor exploitation, debt finance, and pollution"--
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- Planetary Specters: Race, Migration, and Climate Change in the Twenty-First Century
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