Tuvalu and climate change: constructions of environmental displacement in the sydney morning herald

Farbotko, Carol

doi:10.1111/j.0435-3684.2005.00199.x

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“…Little is based on empirical evidence, as shown by Webb and Kench (2010) who found little field data showing that islands are vulnerable or disappearing due to observed sea-level rises. Meanwhile, Hartmann (2010) and Farbotko (2005Farbotko ( , 2010 deconstruct the discourses dominating climate change related displacement. Hartmann (2010) analyses the literature theoretically, tracing its obsession with 'climate refugees' to ideological rather than scientific foundations while suggesting this view to be part of an agenda to militarise development aid and climate change responses.…”

Section: Island Migrationmentioning

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“…Hartmann (2010) analyses the literature theoretically, tracing its obsession with 'climate refugees' to ideological rather than scientific foundations while suggesting this view to be part of an agenda to militarise development aid and climate change responses. Farbotko (2005Farbotko ( , 2010 uses empirical work on discourses about Tuvalu, showing how portraying the islanders as both victims (of climate change) and saviours (through traditional practices) ends up iconising the Tuvaluans as heroes while marginalising their views, interests, abilities and resilience regarding climate change. These publications and their analyses do not conform to popular discourse and are frequently bypassed by other researchers.…”

Section: Island Migrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Island contributions to disaster research

Kelman¹,

Lewis²,

Mercer³

2015

Global Environment

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Island case studies have contributed significantly to disaster research theory and application, including more recent work on climate change adaptation. Island-related work in development and disasters has been particularly adept at building on the past in order to create a better development future through disaster risk reduction, one subset of which is climate change adaptation. However, recent emphasis on climate change has to a large degree bypassed previous and deeper understandings of island contributions to disaster research as well as the importance of island situations. This paper details key elements from the literature on island-based development and disaster research – especially regarding the themes of vulnerability and resilience theory as then applied in practice for island migration – linking this material with a critiquing analysis of ongoing work emerging from climate change. Despite the importance of dealing with climate change, especially for islands and islanders, it must always be placed within wider disaster and development tasks. This includes embracing previous work in order to learn from, without becoming mired in, the past.

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Section: Island Migrationmentioning

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Section: Island Migrationmentioning

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Island contributions to disaster research

Kelman¹,

Lewis²,

Mercer³

2015

Global Environment

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“…For instance, discourses on adaptation on islands that focus on their isolation and geography sometimes end up disguising the historical and cultural experiences of global changes and perniciously shift focus away from pressing issues in the adaptation process (Farbotko, 2005;Kelman, 2014). This is not to disregard the importance of understanding the vulnerabilities and risk stemming from island geography.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Gendered consequences of mobility for adaptation in small island developing states: case studies from Maafushi and Kudafari in the Maldives

Phudoma¹

2018

ISJ

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ABSTRACT:In recent years island communities have actively adapted in response to a complex combination of changes that has shaped life on the islands, and this has had gendered consequences. The gender ramifications of adaptation on islands are still largely neglected in adaptation policies, although they are increasingly being addressed in the scientific literature. Understanding gendered consequences is indispensable for a critical comprehension of adaptation on islands. It would help avoid the formulation of adaptation policies that tend to focus only on technical problems and solutions. Such solutions potentially run the risk of reducing island problems to only biophysical issues such as sea level rise or problems attributed to the size and isolation of the islands. This paper investigates the consequences of adaptation for the mobility of both women and men on two islands in the Maldives, a small island developing state (SIDS) that has experienced unprecedented changes in recent decades. The focus on mobility stems from the fact that it forms an integral social and cultural part of island life. Although gender and mobility are intrinsically linked, the gendered consequences of adaptation for mobility are understudied. This study used qualitative interviews to collect narratives. The results show that the adaptation interviewees describe from their living memory has only exacerbated gender inequality by influencing the mobility of men and women in different ways.

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“…Makoto KOBAYASHI* Social Anthropology, Tokyo Metropolitan University, 1-1, Minami Osawa, Hachioji, Tokyo, Japan gees" (Farbotko 2005). In the mass media, the Tuvaluans are considered as passive victims who are helpless against these global environmental issues (Farbotko 2005).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In the mass media, the Tuvaluans are considered as passive victims who are helpless against these global environmental issues (Farbotko 2005).…”

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Ensuring human security in “the sea of islands”: a case analysis on Tuvaluan repatriate migrants from Nauru and its implication for an adaptation strategy against sea-level rise

Kobayashi

2013

Galaxea, Journal of Coral Reef Studies

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Engulfed in the debates on climate change and sea-level rise, Tuvalu-a small atoll and reef island country in Polynesia-has come to be recognized as the global symbol of the victims of these phenomena. The possibility that sea-level rise could cause a mass migration in Pacific Island countries such as Tuvalu has been widely recognized; nevertheless, scientific research is far from reaching a consensus about when it will occur and how bad it will be. Meanwhile, the media already oversimplifies its reports that Tuvalu will soon be submerged and that its entire population will be forced to emigrate from its home land as "environmental refugees". In the mass media, the Tuvaluans are considered as passive victims who are helpless against these global environmental issues. In this paper, I will show the potential of the people to deal with the effects of sea-level rise by analyzing migration and their kinship networks. In order to achieve this objective, I will address the case of Tuvaluan repatriate migrants from Nauru. This paper will focus mainly on how the repatriated migrants found a place to stay when they returned to Tuvalu. The results demonstrate that inter-island kinship networks produced by migration can work as a safety net. They also suggest that such safety nets could also serve well during possible environmental crises in the near future and hence, migration could be an effective adaptation strategy for climate change.

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Tuvalu and climate change: constructions of environmental displacement in the sydney morning herald

Cited by 153 publications

References 39 publications

Island contributions to disaster research

Island contributions to disaster research

Gendered consequences of mobility for adaptation in small island developing states: case studies from Maafushi and Kudafari in the Maldives

Ensuring human security in “the sea of islands”: a case analysis on Tuvaluan repatriate migrants from Nauru and its implication for an adaptation strategy against sea-level rise

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