Spatio-scientific imaginaries
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21791981 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nandita Dutta (Osnabrück University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Pages | 1-6 |
| Publication date | 2025-11-27 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Climate and Development (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1756-5529 • E-ISSN: 1756-5537 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17565529.2025.2590714 |
| OpenAlex | W4416770949 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 41 |
Imaginaries of climate change are inherently spatial, invoking concepts such as climate hotspots, uninhabitable lands, or sinking islands. These spaces are infused with the potentiality of mass movements of people, with migration inherently spatialized, framed as movement from ‘here’ to ‘there’. Scientific imaginaries of climate migration, thus, not only create objects of study but also reinforce the status of the Global North as the spatiality of scientific knowledge and technological problem solving. Spaces of climate migration are imagined in contradistinction with the spaces of knowledge, policy and governance. This representational and scientific discourse is what I term as spatio-scientific imaginaries. Spatio-scientific imaginaries, however, are more than representational; they actively co-produce the realities they describe. Through their circulation, they begin to seem as ‘natural’ facts. To govern or manage, phenomena must first be situated spatially. In a field animated by uncertainty, spatio-scientific imaginaries create a perception of certainty through the materiality of space. Tracing the historical continuities of such imaginaries and their intersection with culture and power also tells us about their (neo)colonial character
Certainty · Climate change · Human geography · Perception · Situated · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Historical Geography and Geographical Thought · History of Science and Natural History
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Racial capitalism, climate justice, and climate displacement
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The place where I live is where I belong”
The History of Ice
Knowing like a global expert organization
Hawaiʻi as a Laboratory Paradise
Island Imaginaries
The uneven geography of research on “environmental migration”
Colonial Imaginaries and Postcolonial Transformations
Climate imaginaries and the mattering of the medium
Colonial fantasies of invulnerability to climate change
A Critique of the Definitions of Climate and Environmental Migration
Climate Fiction, Climate Theory
Sciences from Below
Epistemic geographies of climate change
The first climate refugees? Contesting global narratives of climate change in Tuvalu
Wishful sinking
Preemption, precaution, preparedness
Spatial Imaginaries Research in Geography
Climate migrants and new identities? The geopolitics of embracing or rejecting mobility
Rendering the World Unsafe
Islands as Novelty Sites
Racialisation and the Figure of the Climate-Change Migrant
Climate mobilities
Regimes of Mobility Across the Globe
Visualizing Climate-Refugees
Recognitions and Responsibilities
The Power of Imagination in Transnational Mobilities
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |