Climate, refugees, global health

What does it mean to be displaced at this juncture of history, in an era marked by increasing climate breakdown? How should the harms and injustices of displacement be rectified? In this project, Dr James Souter aims to build upon existing social-scientific work that challenges the standard framing of displacement as necessarily involving forced migration or movement, contending that displacement is a condition that can be experienced in situ, in the absence of such movement. As well as developing a provisional theory of ‘displacement without movement’, he is aiming to explore how applicable this notion might be to settings in the global North (in relation to processes such as environmental change, deindustrialisation and gentrification), and whether it may offer a pathway to solidarity among the physically displaced, in situ displaced and the non-displaced across the global North and South.