Introduction. Reimagining Narratives at the Intersection of Climate Change and (Im)Mobilities
摘要
This chapter introduces the conceptual and narrative intersections between climate change and human (im)mobility, foregrounding the importance of ‘climate mobility justice’ in the age of the Panicocene. Using emblematic cases from climate communication—such as the viral polar bear imagery—and analyzing the pervasive framing of migration as crisis or emergency, the chapter explores how narratives, media logics, and visual politics shape public perceptions and policy responses to both climate change and migration. It critically examines dominant threat-based and humanitarian discourses that often obscure the structural, historical, and colonial dimensions of climate-driven displacement and mobility restriction. By situating climate change and migration as long-term, interconnected phenomena, the chapter calls for a shift from a panic-driven exceptionalist framing toward justice-centered and decolonial narratives that foreground mobility as a site of agency and rights rather than crisis. In doing so, it lays the groundwork for the volume’s broader inquiry into how imaginaries, media representations, and policy frameworks can either reinforce or challenge the injustices embedded at the nexus of climate change and human mobility.