To engage with the current climate crisis is to also consider how our dominant imaginaries of nature validate certain practices throughout the world from intense monoculture to resource extractivism. Identifying such representations is a means of generating interstices through which to allow other modes of knowing and inhabiting the planet. My work continues to shift our attention towards other ways of seeing and imagining the world around us.

Much of the public conversation and research about the relationship between climate change and migration tends to focus heavily on the possibility of mass migration flows across borders. However, this focus often obscures a range of different ways that peoples’ and communities’ mobility can be impacted and thus limits the range of questions we can ask about what justice requires. I argue that such questions require us to consider the concept of livability and what it means to have a right to a livable place and how this right is implicated by the structure of the international state system under conditions of climate and environmental change.