Claudia Fry

I am a social scientist with a focus on migration, climate change impacts, adaptation, and governance. My PhD project explores processes of planning for and resisting climate-related relocation in Fiji. I focus on the political and social relations between community members and other actors involved in adaptation and approach adaptation as an issue of political and social struggles. I use a social contract theory lens to understand how community members considered for planned relocation negotiate, develop and formulate their own visions of just and fair adaptation governance through contesting established allocations of rights and responsibilities and pushing for new principles of justice.