Author
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- Samuel J. Spiegel
- Lameck Kachena
- Juliet Gudhlanga
Abstract
Shocks linked to climate disasters are increasingly understood as intertwined with inequities, devastating livelihoods, exacerbating food insecurities and impacting migration economies. Yet there is often a lack of sustained and situated attention to how these – and diverse secondary and tertiary shocks – are experienced in relation to gender and class inequalities, other social differences and underlying forces shaping differentiated mobility-related challenges over time. Divergent experiences and histories of shocks are often simplified, with (im)mobility-related struggles misunderstood or only abstractly represented. Amid these concerns, this article explores the ‘mobilities turn’ in climate disaster research, focusing on experiences articulated by people along the Zimbabwe-Mozambique border, examining multiple impacts of climate disasters and changing dynamics of (im)mobility converging with pandemic shocks and interrelated political and socio-economic struggles. In this region, impacted by one of the world’s most severe tropical cyclones in recent memory, we explore the embeddedness of shocks in dynamic political-economic landscapes and life trajectories. Part of a multi-method 5-year project, we focus on stories where articulations around mobilities, translocal connections and mobility disruptions, including from COVID-19, call for carefully understanding socio-economic ties and histories, land alienation and access inequities, mutating meanings of borders, and factors intensifying economic insecurities amid increasingly severe and frequent climate shocks.
Suggested Citation
Samuel J. Spiegel & Lameck Kachena & Juliet Gudhlanga, 2023.
"Climate disasters, altered migration and pandemic shocks: (im)mobilities and interrelated struggles in a border region,"
Mobilities, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 18(2), pages 328-347, March.
Handle:
RePEc:taf:rmobxx:v:18:y:2023:i:2:p:328-347
DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2022.2099756
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