Rethinking of Home and Reparation in the Context of Climate Change

Monday, 7 July 2025: 13:00-14:45
Location: SJES026 (Faculty of Legal, Economic, and Social Sciences (JES))
RC24 Environment and Society (host committee)

Language: English

Due to increasing rates of environmental disasters largely induced by climate change, home as a trust-based boundary has become a central concern for many who are forced to (or by choice) make tough decisions on how and where to live. What is the meaning of home? How has it changed as people experience more disastrous climate events? In what ways do people protect and defend their home boundaries against potential environmental hazards? How has institutional practices on home provide opportunities for the people or hinder their choices? Is it possible for everyone to have a home? This regular session focuses on critical home research with goals to extend sociological understandings of home in the context of climate change, as well as bringing international and interdisciplinary perspectives to the emerging field of home.
Session Organizers:
Haisu HUANG, College of William and Mary, USA and Andrea LAMPIS, Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil
Oral Presentations
Finding Place, Making Home: Narratives of Crisis and Agency Amongst Resettled Ecological Refugees on Sagar Island in the Indian Sundarbans
Sohini CHAKRABORTY, India
To Lose One’s Place: Confronting Environmental and Community Change on the Northern Great Plains
Danielle SCHMIDT, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA; Katherine CURTIS, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Time and Tide: Temporal Inequality in Residential Decisions Around Climate Change
Kalyani MONTEIRO JAYASANKAR, USA
Caring for Shadow Places - the East Gippsland Forest Wars and the Work of Recuperation
Lena SCHLEGEL, Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, LMU Munich, Germany
Repairing Health and Well-Being in Both More-Than-Human and Human Ecosystems: A Multi-Species Paradigm in Singapore and Medellin
Diana BENJUMEA MEJIA, Singapore University of Social Sciences, Singapore
My LAND Is My Life: Unfreedoms in OIL Governance and Environmental and Social Justice in Nigeria’S Niger DELTA
Obasanjo Joseph OYEDELE, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
Understanding Soil Movement and Climate Risks to the Home: Perspectives from France and Switzerland
Sophie NEMOZ, France
Distributed Papers
Navigating Tradition: Local Responses on Maritime Heritage and Ecological Knowledge in Northern Russia
Nikita KARBASOV, Columbia University in the city of New York, USA
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