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- Climate Change and Human Mobility
- Climate Change and Human Mobility
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface and acknowledgements
- Introduction: climate change and human mobility
- Part I Lessons from history: time, scale, and causality
- Part II Societal responses: livelihood, vulnerability, and migration
- Part III Moral climates: experience, expectation, and mitigation
- 7 On the risks of engineering mobility to reduce vulnerability to climate change: insights from a small island state
- 8 Mobility, climate change, and social dynamics in the Arctic: the creation of new horizons of expectation and the role of community
- 9 Climate change and land grab in Africa: resilience for whom?
- 10 Climate change, migration, and Christianity in Oceania
- Index
10 - Climate change, migration, and Christianity in Oceania
from Part III - Moral climates: experience, expectation, and mitigation
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 October 2012
- Climate Change and Human Mobility
- Climate Change and Human Mobility
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface and acknowledgements
- Introduction: climate change and human mobility
- Part I Lessons from history: time, scale, and causality
- Part II Societal responses: livelihood, vulnerability, and migration
- Part III Moral climates: experience, expectation, and mitigation
- 7 On the risks of engineering mobility to reduce vulnerability to climate change: insights from a small island state
- 8 Mobility, climate change, and social dynamics in the Arctic: the creation of new horizons of expectation and the role of community
- 9 Climate change and land grab in Africa: resilience for whom?
- 10 Climate change, migration, and Christianity in Oceania
- Index
Summary
Christian actors and institutions in the Pacific have taken to integrating themes of climate change, sea-level rise, and migration into their religious discourses and practices. Here what interests me is the deliberate reception, processing, and incorporation of the climate change cum migration problematic into the Christian governing practice. Foucault's conception of governmentality – how political power is exercised in the modern era – supplies the analytical instrumentarium for exploring this practice. A series of official declarations by Pacific churches, as well as three case studies from different regions of Oceania (Fiji, Kiribati, and Papua New Guinea), offer a window into the relationship between Christianity, forced migration, and climate change. I examine how Christian churches and actors now position themselves in the conflicted terrain of climate change and displacement as moral authorities and indispensable mediators on the local, national, and international levels.
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- Climate Change and Human MobilityChallenges to the Social Sciences, pp. 235 - 257Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2012
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