Várdduo seminar with Kenna Sim

Welcome to a Várdduo seminar with Kenna Sim

Movement is Foundational: Indigenous Perspectives on Climate Mobilities

Kenna Sim, PhD at LiU

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This seminar will provide background to an ongoing PhD project aiming to explore Indigenous perspectives on mobilities in the context of climate change and the deep histories of climate mobilities, focusing on Sámi and Secwepemc contexts.

Migration and movement, including displacement, planned resettlement, and immobility, are often identified as one of the largest future impacts of climate change. In mainstream climate adaptation frameworks, climate migration is commonly perceived as a contemporary phenomenon that is severed from historical, political, social, and economic contexts, including ongoing processes of racial capitalism and colonial dispossession. Further, it has only recently been acknowledged in mainstream research on migration, resettlement, and climate change that Indigenous peoples have long-standing traditions of mobility and movement that differ from common understandings of migration.

All interested are welcome to participate!
The seminar will be held both on site in Fatmomakke NBET level 4 and on Zoom. Those who want to participate via zoom register in the form below, link will be sent out the day before the seminar.