Continuing with our theme from AY 23-24 , "Climate Change: Displacement and Reparation," NSP will maintain a strong critical ecological focus in the pursuit of climate justice and regenerative politics through attention to a complex set of more than human relationships that cohere under the sign of the emergent quasi-legal category of "Climate Refugee." We have set out to think about this theme through our anthropologically inflected commitments to ecological, spatial, geographic, and place-based thinking. Our conversations - be they posed from the vantage of the Pacific Islands, Palestine, Indigenous peoples in the Americas, or California's diverse BIPOC, immigrant and refugee communities, and at the interface of species, ocean, land or atmosphere - are all necessarily informed by our location along the Pacific Ocean just north of the U.S.-Mexico and increasingly global border, and the University’s deep entanglements with the political economy of the defense industry and the region’s ongoing history of refugee resettlement.

In AY 24-25 we will also combine our energies with the Human Rights and Migration Program, the Critical Refugee Studies Collective, the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies and the International Institute to address the global reach of those continuing to arrive at the U.S.-Mexico Border escaping violence, poverty and the multiplying effects of climate change too often the direct result of U.S. intervention and broader colonial, imperial and capitalist processes. Intranational borders and internal displacements also configure here, as do the more- than-human.