Book launch Climate Displacement by Jamie Draper

Climate change is reshaping patterns of displacement around the world. Extreme weather events destroy homes, environmental degradation undermines livelihoods, sea level rise and coastal erosion force communities to relocate, and risks to food and resource security magnify existing sources of political instability.

In Climate Displacement, Jamie Draper examines the intersection of climate and migration justice. Drawing on empirical work on climate change and displacement in the social sciences, Draper argues that focusing on the figure of the ‘climate refugee’ underestimates the complexity and heterogeneity of climate displacement. Instead, he examines the moral and political issues that arise in five contexts in which climate change and displacement interact: community relocation, territorial sovereignty, labour migration, refugee movement, and internal displacement. The result is an empirically grounded political theory that both maps the conceptual terrain of climate displacement and charts a course for meeting the moral challenge that it raises.

Jamie Draper is an Assistant Professor in the Ethics Institute at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Utrecht University. Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow in Politics at Nuffield College, Oxford. His research is in political philosophy, mostly on applied issues in environmental, social, and global justice, including climate change, migration, and urban politics. He is the author of Climate Displacement (OUP 2023) and the co-editor of The Political Philosophy of Internal Displacement (OUP 2024), and his work has appeared in journals such as the Journal of Political Philosophy, American Political Science Review, Political Studies and the European Journal of Political Theory.

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