How can we rethink urban spaces and migration through a planetary lens amid the climate crisis?

The relationship between climate and displacement is complex, yet research on these topics often focuses on purely technological solutions. This research priority area invites a deeper understanding of these twin topics by bringing together different and diverse perspectives on planetary knowledge and displacement. Key questions include:
- How do definitions of the urban transform in the face of increasing unsettlement and displacement, non-belonging, and planetary uninhabitability?
- How can we resist the racialised narratives around migration permeating our responses to the climate?
- How does the technological intersect with the planetary, and how can posthuman and digital identities address questions of displacement and belonging?
- What forms of future thinking, witnessing and memorialisation are needed on a dying planet?
This approach reconsiders urban spatiality through the planetary; urban temporalities as spanning across the geologic and the molecular; and urban narrative as myth, lore and ritual inflected through the digital and the posthuman.
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- Project: UCL Global Engagement Fund project on climate and culture in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
- Project: Topological Atlas: An ERC-funded project, on the counter-geographies of migrants as they encounter the security apparatus of the border
- Article: 'Decolonization Anyone? Reparations, Repair, and Life in the Aftermath of Disaster' in the Berliner Gazette
- Podcast: OBJECTHOOD #9 with Nishat Awan (Radio Web MACBA)