am Dienstag 29.04. um 17:00 Uhr, VERANSTALTUNG DER ÖAW
Gastvortrag von Prof. John Connell, Univ. Sydney
In 2024 the smallest country in the Pacific, Tuvalu, signed a treaty with Australia, the largest state in the South Pacific region. Why? Understanding this requires unpacking the intricate relationships between climate change, erosion, population size (and distribution), migration, economic development and sovereignty. Tuvalu is regarded as the country most threatened by climate change so that development trends have been shaped by a pattern of dualisms, most evident in migration (stay or go, seawalls or the metaverse). Development is also a function of the scale of governance and services, evident in the challenges of managing health care. As China has taken a greater interest in the Pacific region so geopolitical issues have given new significance to this Australian ‘neighbour’. This relationship has been consolidated in the Falepili Union treaty that promises aid and the most generous migration provisions available to any Pacific Island state. A final dualism considers how this might be regarded as a remarkable island state success story or a resurgence of Australia neo-colonialism.
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John Connell is Professor of Geography in the School of Geosciences at the University of Sydney. He was educated in Leeds and then at University College London and the University of Sussex. He has worked extensively in the Pacific region on issues of migration and development especially in Papua New Guinea (Bougainville) and also in the atoll states. He has published about thirty books, notably Islands at Risk (2013), and is presently working on a book on Islands and Health, but his main claim to fame is having run around the Republic of Nauru before breakfast.
