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Rasifierade klimatmigranter och politiska subjekt: Subjektspositioner, betydelseskapande och diskursivt motstånd

Eriksson Lagerqvist, Diana LU (2019) STVK02 20182
Department of Political Science
Abstract (Swedish)
Climate-induced migration has received an increased amount of attention as an area of research. Earlier studies identify ideal typical discourses of climate-induced migration, in which climates migrants have been positioned as a ‘threat’, as ‘passive victims’ and most recently as ‘adaptable agent’. Drawing on poststructural discourse theory of Laclau and Mouffe and postcolonial theory this essay has two purposes. Firstly, it seeks to examine how subject positions constituted in the discourse of climate migration as an adaptation strategy, and how these are racialized. It also seeks to understand how discursive resistance towards subject postition(s) is articulated by pacific island states.
By discursively analysing the influential... (More)
Climate-induced migration has received an increased amount of attention as an area of research. Earlier studies identify ideal typical discourses of climate-induced migration, in which climates migrants have been positioned as a ‘threat’, as ‘passive victims’ and most recently as ‘adaptable agent’. Drawing on poststructural discourse theory of Laclau and Mouffe and postcolonial theory this essay has two purposes. Firstly, it seeks to examine how subject positions constituted in the discourse of climate migration as an adaptation strategy, and how these are racialized. It also seeks to understand how discursive resistance towards subject postition(s) is articulated by pacific island states.
By discursively analysing the influential Foresight report this essay illustrates how the non-adaptive climate migrant appear as a racialized Other. By being unable to adapt, the non-adaptable Other is constituted as a threat in a similar manner to older discourse. By analysing a ‘Pacific Island’s discourse’, mostly based on statements made by representatives of Kiribati, Fiji and Vanuatu at climate political conferences, this essay identify a counter-discourse to the climate migration as adaptation discourse. By articulating an other meaning of the ‘climate migrant’ the climate migrant instead appears as a ‘political subject’, which is ‘oppressed’, but still possesses ‘agency’. (Less)
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author
Eriksson Lagerqvist, Diana LU
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organization
course
STVK02 20182
year
type
M2 - Bachelor Degree
subject
keywords
Climate Migration, racialisation, discourse theory, discoursive resistance
language
Swedish
id
8965334
date added to LUP
2019-03-21 09:59:04
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2019-03-21 09:59:04
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  abstract     = {{Climate-induced migration has received an increased amount of attention as an area of research. Earlier studies identify ideal typical discourses of climate-induced migration, in which climates migrants have been positioned as a ‘threat’, as ‘passive victims’ and most recently as ‘adaptable agent’. Drawing on poststructural discourse theory of Laclau and Mouffe and postcolonial theory this essay has two purposes. Firstly, it seeks to examine how subject positions constituted in the discourse of climate migration as an adaptation strategy, and how these are racialized. It also seeks to understand how discursive resistance towards subject postition(s) is articulated by pacific island states. 
By discursively analysing the influential Foresight report this essay illustrates how the non-adaptive climate migrant appear as a racialized Other. By being unable to adapt, the non-adaptable Other is constituted as a threat in a similar manner to older discourse. By analysing a ‘Pacific Island’s discourse’, mostly based on statements made by representatives of Kiribati, Fiji and Vanuatu at climate political conferences, this essay identify a counter-discourse to the climate migration as adaptation discourse. By articulating an other meaning of the ‘climate migrant’ the climate migrant instead appears as a ‘political subject’, which is ‘oppressed’, but still possesses ‘agency’.}},
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  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Rasifierade klimatmigranter och politiska subjekt: Subjektspositioner, betydelseskapande och diskursivt motstånd}},
  year         = {{2019}},
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