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This chapter addresses global warming and climate change-related migration connections by adopting a cross-disciplinary approach. In order to capture the interrelations between climate change, mobility, and the law, it resorts to a non-fictional literary genre (i. e., climate change pop-science). The critical legal approach is complemented by the legal theoretical perspective, which examines how climate change affects the bonds of political communities and the legitimacy of political authorities. It also explores how a strategic use of the law shapes our approach to global insecurities related to migration and climate change. Against this background, the essay maintains that there are also possibilities. The non-fictional texts reflect the ideas of the most active forces within society, fueling dynamism when tackling the ecological crisis. In a time of climate change, these forces stir formalism and make the law act as a bridge, linking our troubled reality to an inclusive future.

This article addresses how climate change triggers relevant transformations in the realm of the law and affects our politico-legal paradigms. To this end, it delivers cross-disciplinary research by focusing on a non-fictional literary genre, i.e. climate-change pop-science, which has arisen very recently. The article also explores the concept of ‘strategic formalism’, i.e. a strategic legal device unable to govern societal concerns. On the one hand, it shapes our approach to climate change and migration; on the other, it adapts ecological issues to the ‘traditional’ legal framework. Against this background, the article argues that non-fictional texts also reflect the ideas of the most active forces within society, and fuel dynamism when tackling the ecological crisis. In a time of climate change, these forces stir strategic formalism, and make the law act as a bridge linking our troubled reality to an inclusive future.

This chapter addresses two interpretive communities performing climate narratives. The first one is made up of social movements for climate change, whereas the second one comprises transnational economic actors, according to which global warming must be tackled by preserving the current economically constructed paradigms. These probe a ‘strategic’ use of the law, which is servient to normalising the ecological catastrophe and making consumerism a channel for a greener future. The socio-climatic consequences of our economic systems are thus dismissed with a mix of persuasion, pride, and prejudice. Climate narratives do not automatically exclude loopholes within their texture, which is vulnerable to the assaults of the ecological catastrophe. As interpretive communities, social movements are called upon to stir up both our consciences and legal formalism, teaching us to remain vigilant and keep the door of the law open to a constant conversation with the world and its environmental concerns.

The article engages in a cross-disciplinary dialogue between law, geography, and the humanities in a time of climate change. It focuses on the British Overseas Territories (BOTs) situated at the crossroads of Southern Atlantic geopolitical disputes: the Falkland Islands, South Georgia, and the South Sandwich Islands. The current ecological crisis refashions territorial claims over these islands and archipelagos. The article explores the legal implications of the concept of “environmental authority”. This concept benefits from the paradigms shaped when England (then the UK) started navigating the Southern hemisphere in the seventeenth century. In delving into an alternative reading of British titles, the paper analyses to what extent they underwent an ecological shift, which might be applied to tackle our transnational ecological concerns.

Abstract The essay stages the law at the intersections between the humanities, technology, and the production of digital space. Interactions like these are relevant in the present age, where humankind is outcompeting natural resources and changing the earth. The Anthropocene is an epoch of environmental crisis; despite this, we turn such a crisis into a process of sublimation servient to the control of the earth. Blurring the divide between the digital and the human is functional to such a process. The strategic use of the law makes climate-change policies compatible with global markets. Assuming that manufacturing digital spaces is useful to this end, the essay focuses on multimedia games. Blending real-word performances with internet- and media-related contents, they are functional to sublimation, convincing us that we can tackle climate change without rearranging our economic paradigms.

The essay stages the law at the intersections between the humanities, technology, and the production of digital spaces. Interactions like these are relevant in the present age, where humankind is outcompeting natural resources and changing the earth. The Anthropocene is an epoch of environmental crisis, which we humans make undergo a process of sublimation servient to the control of the earth; blurring the divide between the digital and the human is functional to such a process. The strategic use of the law then makes climate-change policies compatible with global markets. Assuming that manufacturing digital spaces is useful to this end, the essay focuses on multimedia games, i.e. a digital space blending real-word performances with internet- and media-related contents. This digital space is also functional to sublimation, since it convinces us that we can successfully tackle climate change without changing our lifestyles and economic paradigms.

This paper examines how globalisation impacts on legal scholarship. To this end, it draws a connection between two types of impoverished habitats, i.e. legal variety and fragile environments. In so doing, it reappraises the role of comparative legal scholarship within the global-law conversation in a time of climate change. It proposes a scholarly paradigm whereby comparative law might contribute to the legal examination of the ecological concerns shared by the whole of humanity. It challenges the legal universalistic approach, through which mainstream comparative law turns out to be servient to the purposes of global law in climate-change-related issues. This means being subversive and running counter to the idea of normalisation of ecological and climate concerns in global legal studies. Being subversive also entails reframing our methodological attitude in a time of climate change, revitalising its empirical, and problembased, approach to transnational concerns, and developing an even more crossdisciplinary attire.

This article addresses how climate change triggers relevant transformations in the realm of the law and affects our politico-legal paradigms. To this end, it delivers cross-disciplinary research by focusing on a non-fictional literary genre, i.e. climate-change pop-science, which has arisen very recently. The article also explores the concept of ‘strategic formalism’, i.e. a strategic legal device unable to govern societal concerns. On the one hand, it shapes our approach to climate change and migration; on the other, it adapts ecological issues to the ‘traditional’ legal framework. Against this background, the article argues that non-fictional texts also reflect the ideas of the most active forces within society, and fuel dynamism when tackling the ecological crisis. In a time of climate change, these forces stir strategic formalism, and make the law act as a bridge linking our troubled reality to an inclusive future.