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DOI	10.1002/wcc.803
	Who is the climate-induced trapped figure?
	Ayeb-Karlsson, Sonja; Baldwin, Andrew W.; Kniveton, Dominic
发表日期	2022
ISSN	1757-7780
EISSN	1757-7799
卷号	13 期号:6 页码:24
英文摘要	Many will remember the 1990s alarmist narratives of how a human tide of up to a billion climate refugees would flood our borders by 2050. By 2011, a new character joined the discourse: the trapped figure. No longer would climatically vulnerable people be forced to move, they could also end up immobile. This review examines the narratives that surround the trapped figure. The article highlights the trapped figure's (i) characterisation, (ii) geography, and (iii) storytellers. The material includes the 2011 Foresight Report, 64 English peer-reviewed journal articles, and seven UNFCCC policy reports. The textual analysis furthers our understanding of the values that shape the meaning of the trapped figure within the wider discursive economy. Out of the 64 articles, 48 located the trapped figure in Asia, while 34 placed the figure in Africa. Meanwhile, the majority of articles-62 in total-were written by scholars based at European research institutes. The study shows that the trapped figure, much as the mythical climate refugee and migrant, is constructed as both a victim in need of rescuing and as an ambiguous security threat. It is ethically problematic that planned relocation was often put forward as an effective tool to move the figure out of harm's way. The review also found a range of binary opposites in the discourse on trapped populations, including those of order-disorder, freedom-unfreedom, and victim-savior. This suggests that however well-intentioned the liberal discourse on trapped populations appear, it remains embedded in power relations which demands for critical scrutiny. This article is categorized under: Social Status of Climate Change Knowledge > Sociology/Anthropology of Climate Knowledge Climate and Development > Sustainability and Human Well-Being Perceptions, Behavior, and Communication of Climate Change > Perceptions of Climate Change Climate, Nature, and Ethics > Ethics and Climate Change
英文关键词	climate change; climate policy; climate refugees; displacement; human mobility; humanitarianism; immobility; loss and damage; otherness; trapped populations; white saviourism; UNFCCC
学科领域	Environmental Studies; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences
WOS记录号	WOS:000871439400001
来源期刊	WILEY INTERDISCIPLINARY REVIEWS-CLIMATE CHANGE
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/272962
作者单位	University of London; University College London; University of Sussex; Durham University
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Ayeb-Karlsson, Sonja,Baldwin, Andrew W.,Kniveton, Dominic. Who is the climate-induced trapped figure?[J],2022,13(6):24.
APA	Ayeb-Karlsson, Sonja,Baldwin, Andrew W.,&Kniveton, Dominic.(2022).Who is the climate-induced trapped figure?.WILEY INTERDISCIPLINARY REVIEWS-CLIMATE CHANGE,13(6),24.
MLA	Ayeb-Karlsson, Sonja,et al."Who is the climate-induced trapped figure?".WILEY INTERDISCIPLINARY REVIEWS-CLIMATE CHANGE 13.6(2022):24.