(Mis)representing climate mobilities: lessons from documentary filmmaking.
Climate migration discourses tend to misrepresent the complex realities and experiences of people whose lives are impacted by climate change. All too often, the images conjured are of inevitable, massive, and permanent cross-border movements, contributing to apocalyptic and securitised climate imagi...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies Vol. 48; no. 14; pp. 3397 - 3416 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=158448117&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 158448117 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 1369183X 56F jtl: Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies issn: 1369183X maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Jul2022 vid: 48 iid: 14 pid: 377 pub: Taylor & Francis Ltd artinfo: ui: 158448117 10.1080/1369183X.2022.2066260 ppf: 3397 ppct: 19 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 1.4MB tig: atl: (Mis)representing climate mobilities: lessons from documentary filmmaking. aug: au: Durand-Delacre, David affil: Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK su: Climate change Documentary film production Environmental refugees Residential mobility Effect of climate on human beings Emigration & immigration in motion pictures Human migrations sug: subj: Climate change Documentary film production Environmental refugees Residential mobility Effect of climate on human beings Emigration & immigration in motion pictures Human migrations keyword: climate change Climate mobilities documentaries imaginaries representation ab: Climate migration discourses tend to misrepresent the complex realities and experiences of people whose lives are impacted by climate change. All too often, the images conjured are of inevitable, massive, and permanent cross-border movements, contributing to apocalyptic and securitised climate imaginaries that cast migration as a threat to western societies. Climate mobilities scholarship contradicts these assumptions as inaccurate and damaging, with empirical research demonstrating that climate change affects peoples' realities and experiences of mobilities in varied and multi-faceted ways. And yet, despite these well-established findings, overly simplistic climate migration narratives still abound. This poses a question: how can climate mobilities be better represented? To explore this question, I analyse six documentary films that portray island and coastal communities facing the possibility of migration. Methodologically, I use filmmaker interviews to contextualise the films' production. Drawing on mobilities theory, I show that understanding the representation process (filmmaking) requires close attention not just to the mobilities of people being represented, but also of those engaged in representation (the filmmakers) and the subsequent circulation of the representation (film) itself. Whose mobilities are prioritised in this process is crucial. Ultimately, I argue that climate mobilities scholarship can learn from the filmmakers' experiences. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies is the property of Taylor & Francis Ltd and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies holder: Taylor & Francis Ltd dt: @attributes: year: 2022 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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