Many of us are well-versed on the effects that climate change is having on our environment, but another of its major impacts is the dramatic shifting of locations where humans can sustainably live. Perspectives, policies, and our understandings of space and identity have already begun shifting along with these populations. These two organizations have created online capsule courses to learn more about the relationship between climate change and migration:
This chapter from an academic book by Brendan O’Leary discusses the colonizing practice of creating partitions and compares the partitions of Ireland, India, and British Palestine.
Read Scratches across the Heart: Comparing Ireland’s Partition
This website collates eight PBS Frontline documentaries that explore the ongoing, often violent repercussions of US immigration policies. All are available free to watch online and have additional resources to support their use in a classroom setting.
To quote Yi-Fu Tuan, “People think that geography is about capitals, landforms and so on. But it is also about place — its emotional tone, social meaning, and generative potential.” Tuan is considered a founder of Humanistic Geography, and Kelley A. McClinchey offers a moving and informative eulogy that takes us both through his career and through many of the core concerns of this vital emergent field.
This sixteen minute film, produced by the Antipode Foundation, functions as a micro-course on Racial Capitalism and Abolition Geography. It features Ruth Wilson Gilmore, a foundational thinker and activist in the field of Carceral Geography
Watch Geographies of Racial Capitalism with Ruth Wilson Gilmore
Anna Schliehe has compiled an illuminating bibliography that explores the field of Carceral Geography, the study of how confinement and closed spaces reflect state interests and power, and how they impact humans at the scale of community and self
This essay by nonpartisan think tank the Brookings Institute discusses the importance of third places for generation and maintenance of community.