Wishful sinking: Disappearing islands, climate refugees and cosmopolitan experimentation
Wishful sinking: Disappearing islands, climate refugees and cosmopolitan experimentation
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Melbourne, Australia: Blackwell Publishing Asia
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Melbourne, Australia: Blackwell Publishing Asia
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Disappearing islands and climate refugees have become signifiers of the scale and urgency of uneven impacts of climate change. This paper offers a critical account of how sea level rise debates reverberate around Western mythologies of island laboratories. I argue that representations of low‐lying Oceania islands as experimental spaces burden these...
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Wishful sinking: Disappearing islands, climate refugees and cosmopolitan experimentation
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TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_815278509
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_815278509
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1360-7456,1467-8373
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1467-8373
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10.1111/j.1467-8373.2010.001413.x
