Description: Planetary Specters : Race, Migration, and Climate Change in the Twenty-first Century, Hardcover by Ahuja, Neel, ISBN 1469664461, ISBN-13 9781469664460, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US 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.
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Book Title: Planetary Specters : Race, Migration, and Climate Change in the T
Number of Pages: 224 Pages
Publication Name: Planetary Specters : Race, Migration, and Climate Change in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Subject: Anthropology / General, World, Global Warming & Climate Change
Item Height: 0.6 in
Publication Year: 2021
Item Weight: 17.6 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Neel Ahuja
Subject Area: Social Science, Science, History
Item Length: 9.2 in
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Hardcover
