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Chairs(s):

Kimberley Thomas, Department of Geography and Urban Studies, Temple University

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Description:

Climate changes are unequivocally shifting the way people live and get by, particularly in agrarian regions characterized by high dependence on rain-fed agriculture, accelerating agribusiness investments in land, and pre-existing socio-environmental vulnerabilities. Simultaneously, dominant representations of climate change and linked displacements can leave much to be desired, particularly in agrarian landscapes where existing mobilities are often read as evidence of either climate adaptations or failures thereof. Whether depicted as success or failure, both framings can invisibilize the preexisting socioenvironmental processes that render climate-induced migrations necessary—or conversely, that can inhibit them entirely. This paper session engages with the diversity of eco-social scholarship complicating these more reductive reads of the relationships between ongoing agrarian, climate, and mobility transformations, including work from the fields of environmental migration and critical disaster studies, feminist political ecology, critical physical geography, and socio-environmental systems analysis, among others.

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