Ethnographic research investigates how climate change affects mobilities in Brazil’s Enseada da Baleia community, suggesting new frameworks for non-Western contexts.
This paper examines the impact of climate change on the mobilities of Brazil's Enseada da Baleia community, particularly their relationship with fish, specifically manjuba (sardines). Facing relocation due to drastic geographical alterations on Cardoso Island, the study, grounded in eight months of ethnographic research and utilizing frameworks from mobility studies and relational ontologies, emphasizes the community's entanglement with fish in overcoming climate change challenges and remaking their world. The article introduces the ‘Mobile Kinship’ concept to explore human-nonhuman relationships in determining mobility patterns after climate impact. As such, this work advocates for integrating a relational perspective into the climate mobility framework, focusing on understanding, and addressing the climate-induced mobilities of non-Western communities.
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