Speaker:
David Durand-Delacre
Visiting Assistant Professor – United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS)
Talk title:
Human Mobilities in a Changing Climate
Speaker bio:
I am a human geographer and critical migration scholar interested in the political, cultural, and epistemological controversies arising from growing concern about climate change’s impact on human mobilities. I situate my work broadly within mobilities studies, social sciences of climate change, and geographies of knowledge. My PhD research (2018-2022) focused on how knowledge about climate mobilities is produced, debated, and communicated across academia, government, civil society, and the news media in France, allowing me to identify conceptual and political obstacles hindering action on climate mobilities. I am particularly interested in the challenging work of translating knowledge between the worlds of academia, development practice, and policy-making, especially through non-conventional or creative means like “serious games” and interactive workshops.
