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Research interests
Conceptualizing and testing the ways in which climate change shapes meanings
of mobility and place. Analysing the social structures that give places and mobility meaning in a warming world.
Key question: How do inhabitants and outsiders conceptualise and contest the meanings of sea level rise through ideas such as present and future, citizen and climate refugee, home and migration.
Research projects
1) Imaginative geographies of
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Tuvaluan children, first King Tide festival, Tuvalu 2010 (photograph: Eliala Fihaki)
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Next steps...
Project 1: Disappearing futures? Pacific children, climate change and changing senses of belonging
Aim: To analyse the influence of messages about climate change on the ways in which Pacific children understand themselves, their homes and their futures.
Project 2: Where can we go? Linking Tuvaluan ancestries with migration opportunities
Collaborators: Taukiei Kitara, Tuvalu Climate Action Network and Heather Lazrus, National Centre for Atmospheric Research, USA. Aims: 1) To design and implement an innovative climate change adaptation tool: a comprehensive database linking Tuvaluan genealogies and migration opportunities. 2) To assess the role of genealogies in advancing community-based climate change migration-adaptation strategies in Tuvalu.
References
Farbotko, C. and Lazrus, H. (in press) Whose voice: questioning climate refugee narratives, Global Environmental Change-Human and Policy Dimensions. Farbotko, C. (in press) Skilful seafarers, oceanic drifters or climate refugees? Pacific people, news value and the climate refugee crisis in Migration and the Media, Threadgold, T., Gross, B. and Moore, K. (eds.) Oxford: Peter Lang Publishing.
Farbotko, C. (2010) The global warming clock is ticking so see these places while you
can: voyeuristic tourism and model environmental citizens on Tuvalus disappearing islands Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography 31(2):224-238.