Wishful sinking: Disappearing islands, climate refugees and cosmopolitan experimentation
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 sites with providing proof … Continue reading Wishful sinking: Disappearing islands, climate refugees and cosmopolitan experimentation