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Abstract：
Recent debates on climate mobilities have largely ignored the dynamics of mobility patterns including short-distance and short-duration circular movements to enhance adaptative capacity and resilience of households and individuals, enabling them to remain in place despite facing increasingly severe climatic risks. This paper explores Pacific Islanders\' climate-related mobilities with reference to cases from Samoa. It first conceptualizes Samoan mobility, which is rooted in Samoan culture, norms and worldviews, and then uses this as a framework to examine ways in which people shift and diversify their residential locations for climate-associated reasons. The study employs a comparative case study approach using conversational (the Pacific-originated talanoa-style) interviews with 40 participants in two villages in Samoa-one urban and the other rural. Findings suggest that shifting spatially and temporarily between two residences (a practice called fa\'a-\'āigalua) occurs not only within the village but across villages. Thereby, villagers reduce the risk of incurring physical harm from climate-related disasters, while minimizing the risk of cultural harm from place detachment. Our study challenges the discourse of \'vulnerable Pacific Islanders\' by demonstrating the adaptability of Samoans to changing socio-ecological and climatic circumstances and their ability to develop a variety of climate resilience strategies, including micro-mobilities and circular migration. This article is part of the theme issue \'Climate change adaptation needs a science of culture\'.
摘要：
最近关于气候变化的辩论在很大程度上忽略了流动模式的动态，包括短距离和短期循环运动，以增强家庭和个人的适应能力和复原力，尽管面临越来越严重的气候风险，但它们仍能够留在原地。本文参考萨摩亚的案例，探讨了太平洋岛民与气候有关的流动性。它首先概念化了萨摩亚的机动性，植根于萨摩亚文化，规范和世界观，然后将其用作框架来研究人们出于气候相关原因而转移和多样化居住地点的方式。该研究采用了比较案例研究方法，使用对话式（太平洋起源的塔拉诺阿式）访谈对萨摩亚两个村庄的40名参与者进行了访谈，一个是城市，另一个是农村。研究结果表明，两个住所之间的空间和临时转移（称为fa\'a-\'āigalua）不仅发生在村庄内部，而且发生在村庄之间。因此，村民减少了与气候有关的灾害造成身体伤害的风险，同时最大限度地降低了地方脱离文化危害的风险。我们的研究通过证明萨摩亚人对不断变化的社会生态和气候环境的适应性以及他们制定各种气候适应力策略的能力，挑战了“脆弱的太平洋岛民”的话语。包括微迁移和循环迁移。本文是主题问题“气候变化适应需要文化科学”的一部分。
