Planetary Specters: Race, Migration, and Climate Change in the Twenty-First Cent

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Tracks the figure of the climate refugee in public media and policy over the past decade, arguing that journalists, security experts, politicians, and non-governmental organisations have often oversimplified climate change and obfuscated the processes that drive mass migration.

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Neel Ahuja tracks the figure of the climate refugee in public media and policy over the past decade, arguing that journalists, security experts, politicians, and nongovernmental organizations have often oversimplified climate change and obfuscated the processes that drive mass migration. To understand the systemic reasons for displacement, Ahuja argues, it is necessary to reframe climate disaster as interlinked with the history of capitalism and the global politics of race, wherein racist presumptions about agrarian underdevelopment and Indigenous knowledge mask how financial, development, migration, and climate adaptation policies reproduce growing inequalities.Drawing on the work of Cedric Robinson and theories of racial capitalism, Ahuja considers how the oil industry transformed the economic and geopolitical processes that lead to displacement. From South Asia to the Persian Gulf, Europe, and North America, Ahuja studies how Asian trade, finance, and labor connections have changed the nature of race, borders, warfare, and capitalism since the 1970s. Ultimately, Ahuja argues that only by reckoning with how climate change emerges out of longer histories of race, colonialism, and capitalism can we begin to build a sustainable and just future for those most affected by environmental change.

Author Biography

Neel Ahuja is associate professor of feminist studies and a core faculty member of the Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Program at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Review

A vital and stimulating read--both for its piercing rebuttal of the racism inherent in current ideas of climate migration, and for its analysis of the material changes of the past seventy years in the age of oil."--US Intellectual HistoryAs the planet continues hurtling toward disaster at breakneck speed, Ahuja presents a convincing framework for understanding environmental racism."--Scientific American

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As the planet continues hurtling toward disaster at breakneck speed, Ahuja presents a convincing framework for understanding environmental racism."-- Scientific American

Details ISBN146966447X Author Neel Ahuja Short Title Planetary Specters Pages 224 Language English Year 2021 ISBN-10 146966447X ISBN-13 9781469664477 Format Paperback Subtitle Race, Migration, and Climate Change in the Twenty-First Century Imprint The University of North Carolina Press Place of Publication Chapel Hill Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2021-11-09 NZ Release Date 2021-11-09 Publication Date 2021-10-30 UK Release Date 2021-10-30 Publisher The University of North Carolina Press DEWEY 304.8 Audience Professional & Vocational US Release Date 2021-10-30 We've got this

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