Developing Normative Political Concepts in Chancing Climatic Conditions: Mobility, Sovereignty and Sustainability

Abstract

This panel brings together work which investigates how climate change disrupts longstanding paradigms in political thought and presupposed concepts of the international system including state sovereignty, territory, jurisdictional authority, mobility, and natural resources. The panel raises question concerning how political and normative theorizing can generate new grounds for governance, institutional design and reform, and policy development by identifying the implications of centering climate change in such theorizing. The arguments presented on the panel reconceptualize commonly held or shared understandings of key norms and concepts as well as identify operative value assumptions that underlie moral, political, and legal approaches to urgent transborder and local challenges. In doing so, they provide new grounds for raising and answering questions regarding the justice-based obligations for the international system to address climate-related mobilities, resource management, sustainability, and conservation challenges.

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