New paradigm of ecological crisis through glance of European borders

ENToday we live in a century in which humanitarian and environmental disasters converge. Reasoning and research on the discourse of ‘crisis’ as a starting-and-ending point of analysis have produced representations about the interconnection between globality, ecological crisis, mass migration, and pandemic. The importance of environmental identity gives us a sense of connection with nature and the possibility for humans to be part of a larger whole. Humanitarian catastrophes are triggering ecological disasters. The European ecological, migration and pandemic crises have pushed the researchers of borders to rethinking the process of re-bordering and de-constructing European border function. The idea “to move from a geopolitical to a biopolitical horizon of thinking” inspired by Foucault and Agamben, have given the possibility to develop a more pluralized view in the development of the policy as such. This “biopolitical horizon of thinking” suggests a radical break of the past. For us, as researchers, the most important are “the shifts of philosophical ideas” that extract sameness even from what is unique in all types of crises. Keywords: border, ecolinguistics, ecological crisis, environmental migrant, environmental identity, paradigm shift.