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Calculating ‘Climate Migrants’: An Emerging Topology of Power (2024)
Journal Article
Baldwin, W. A., & Waters, R. (in press). Calculating ‘Climate Migrants’: An Emerging Topology of Power. Security Dialogue,

On what basis can it be said that climate change contributes to human migration? What are we to make of evidence used to construct the relationship between these two epochal phenomena? This paper develops the idea that evidence of the relation betwee... Read More about Calculating ‘Climate Migrants’: An Emerging Topology of Power.

Managed Urban Retreat: The Trouble with Crisis Narratives (2023)
Journal Article
Rahman, M. F., Lewis, D., Kuhl, L., Baldwin, A., Ruszczyk, H., Nadiruzzaman, M., & Mahid, Y. (2023). Managed Urban Retreat: The Trouble with Crisis Narratives. Urban Geography, https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2023.2228094

In response to narratives of the mass movement of people triggered by climate change, a number of “managed retreat” models have been proposed as policy options, especially for densely populated urban areas in the Global South. Reviewing a case study... Read More about Managed Urban Retreat: The Trouble with Crisis Narratives.

Who is the climate-induced trapped figure? (2022)
Journal Article
Ayeb-Karlsson, S., & Baldwin, A. (2022). Who is the climate-induced trapped figure?. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, 13(6), Article e803. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.803

Many will remember the 1990s alarmist narratives of how a human tide of up to a billion climate refugees would flood “our” borders by 2050. By 2011, a new character joined the discourse: the trapped figure. No longer would climatically vulnerable peo... Read More about Who is the climate-induced trapped figure?.

Race and Climate Change: Towards Anti-Racist Ecologies (2022)
Journal Article
Tilley, L., Ranawana, A., Baldwin, A., & Tully, T. (2023). Race and Climate Change: Towards Anti-Racist Ecologies. Politics, 43(2), 141-152. https://doi.org/10.1177/02633957221127166

Global South scholars have long documented and theorised their communities’ struggles against the ecological degradation, toxic contamination, and climate change–related extreme weather events which result from the overlapping ills of colonialism, im... Read More about Race and Climate Change: Towards Anti-Racist Ecologies.

Climate migration myths (2019)
Journal Article
Boas, I., Farbotko, C., Adams, H., Sterly, H., Bush, S., van der Geest, K., …Hulme, M. (2019). Climate migration myths. Nature Climate Change, 9(11), 901-903. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-019-0633-3

Misleading claims about mass migration induced by climate change continue to surface in both academia and policy. This requires a new research agenda on ‘climate mobilities’ that moves beyond simplistic assumptions and more accurately advances knowle... Read More about Climate migration myths.