Bordering Migratory Shorebirds through Contested Mobility Developments

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ID3948168
AutoresKaya Barry (0000-0001-6855-645X, Griffith University), Shahenda Suliman (0000-0001-6354-1750, Griffith University)
Ano2023
Volume28
Fascículo2
Páginas513-532
Data de publicação2023-03-15
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoGeopolitics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1465-0045 • E-ISSN: 1557-3028
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14650045.2022.2027368
OpenAlexW4210349522
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas12
Referências citadas30

Airports and seaports inhabit multiple geographies that dictate global mobility across political, economic, social, and environmental borders. In Australia and across the Asia-Pacific, large-scale mobility developments are being undertaken to connect local businesses and industries with global markets. However, these projects are proceeding without regard for the impacts that these mobility hubs will have on local and global ecologies. This is certainly the case across the Asia-Pacific region, where industry is impacting on the routes of migratory shorebirds along the ‘East Asian-Australasian Flyway’, which spans 18 countries and carries over 50 million migratory birds each year. Key sites that make up the Flyway are established and prolific hubs for these nonhuman mobilities, yet encroaching land reclamation practices are resulting in considerable avian population declines. This paper explores how more-than-human conceptualisation of the EAA Flyway and the “borders” it instigates through global conservation and nation-state governance are inadequately protecting the migratory shorebirds. We examine the recent and contested developments in Moreton Bay, in Brisbane, Australia, and the many bordering practices that take shape in this local place along the EAA Flyway. We argue that the multi-sited path that compose these global Flyways challenge our all-too-human-centric conceptions of space, borders, and movement

Business · Corporate governance · Economic geography · Economics · Economy · Environmental planning · Flyway · Geography · Population · Sociology · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Migration, Refugees, and Integration