The ‘living border’: critical border studies in a time of climate change

Hilary Cunningham and Stephen Bede Scharper

Chapter 13 in Border Studies, 2025, pp 241-266 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: While border scholarship has long engaged with the interconnection between international borders and natural environments, it is only recently that the impacts of climate change have become a central focus. Given that the Earth's natural ecosystems are currently undergoing major disruption, the implications for viable and thriving human (and nonhuman) communities are both substantial and pressing. Key concerns for border studies (such as forced migration and refugees, food security and poverty, conflicts over land and resources, global health, biodiversity, poverty, and justice) must now be addressed within the context of a planetary environmental crisis. This chapter reviews the various methods and approaches border scholarship has adopted in response to climate change, highlighting not only new directions, but also research which underscores borders as multispecies interfaces. This demands new ways of knowing, theorizing and problem-solving as we confront the ways in which border politics and barriers are impacting not only human communities, but also biotic communities around the world.

Keywords: Climate change; Global health; Migration; Food security; Biotic communities (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781800375383
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