Fragile environment, fractured citizenship: Environmental displacement and the erosion of citizenship

The conditions of a fragile and unsustainable ecology have added to the complexities much-contested notion ‘citizenship’. Ecological peril, both in form extreme weather events slow-onset impacts environmental degradation, has serious repercussions for already prevailing conundrum that conception citizenship entails. Proliferation ‘natural’ disasters acceleration degeneration recent times caused large-scale involuntary displacement consequently rupture sense ‘belonging’, which is cornerstone citizenship. Thus, it imperative ‘citizenship’ reconceptualised light lived reality produces new forms precarity while disrupting being-a-citizen. Displacement by volatile paves path gradual waning rights, often leading loss avenues meaningful citizen engagement, thereby making an exemplary case understanding how operates as place-based relation. This article will discuss precarious environmentally displaced people delineate intractable chasm between ideas ‘administered’ ‘lived’ I argue drawing on ‘processual’ aspects becomes against backdrop rapid degradation ecosystems calls reworking ‘political’ sphere reformulation idiom