This project, conducted jointly with Pablo Bose (Geography, University of Vermont) and Anna Zalik (Environmental Studies, York), is part of the Environment and Development Induced Displacement Cluster of the Refugee Research Network (RRN). Our goal has been to step back from the substantial interest in climate change induced displacement to examine ways in which this fits into a larger pattern of environmentally induced displacement. This includes actual displacements, the discursive tactics through which related “threats” are often framed, and related human rights abuses. We are working to expand understanding of ecological dislocation more broadly understood and, more specifically, shed light on links between different forms of environmental displacement tied to climate change, extractive industries, and conservation.

Publications:

The Project has produced two special journals editions:

Refuge (Vol. 29, No. 2): Environmentally Induced Displacement and Forced Migration
Area (forthcoming): Environmental Displacement

My own research on conservation-induced displacement includes:

Lunstrum, E., P. Bose, and A. Zalik. Forthcoming. Environmental displacement: The common ground of climate change, extraction, and conservation Area.

Lunstrum, E. Forthcoming. Conservation meets militarization in Kruger National Park: Historical encounters and complex legacies. Conservation and Society.

Massé, F. and E. Lunstrum. Forthcoming. Accumulation by securitization: Commercial poaching, neoliberal conservation, and the creation of new wildlife frontiers. Geoforum.

Lunstrum, E. Forthcoming. Green grabs, land grabs, and the spatiality of displacement: Eviction from Mozambique’s Limpopo National Park. Area.

Bose, P. & E. Lunstrum.  2014. Introduction: Environmentally induced displacement and forced migration. Refuge 29 (2): 5-10.

Lunstrum, E. 2013. Articulated sovereignty: Extending Mozambican state power through the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park. Political Geography, 36: 1-11.

Lunstrum, E. 2010. Reconstructing history, grounding claims to space: History, memory, and displacement in the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park. South African Geographical Journal 92 (2): 129-143. Lunstrum, E. 2008. Investing in development: Mozambique’s 1997 Land Law and the Limpopo National Park. The Geographical Review 98 (3): 339-355.

Workshop:

With Anna Zalik and Pablo Bose, I organized the 2012 workshop Environmental Displacement in a Global Context, hosted by York University’s Centre for Refugee Studies. The workshop led to the two special journal editions listed above.