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

by Neel Ahuja

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 146966447X
• ISBN13: 9781469664477
• Release Date: November 2021
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"