ABSTRACT
Deteriorations in the environment with the exacerbation of climate catastrophe and global warming have facilitated insight into environmental harms. Unprecedented deaths at global borders remind people that those who are most harmed by bordering are often those who are in most need of having access to mobility, and thus studies in social harms align with human geography. The catastrophic and ongoing harms inflicted by the foreseen economic crisis of 2007/2008 combine critical studies in economics with studies in social harm. Grenfell Tower was a high-rise block of mostly social housing flats in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea – the richest borough in London. The Grenfell Action Group had already warned of a tragedy back in 2016. The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Council ignored its warnings. It is a discipline and a framework which rejects commonplace assumptions of ‘objectivity’ and advocates social change in accordance with groups who are most disenfranchised, and thus often most socially harmed.
