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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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.

Adaptive migration: pluralising the debate on climate change and migration (2017)
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Baldwin, W., & Fornalé, E. (2017). Adaptive migration: pluralising the debate on climate change and migration. The Geographical Journal, 183(4), 322-328. https://doi.org/10.1111/geoj.12242

The interaction between environmental change and human mobility is attracting global attention, both in policy circles and in the contemporary literature. This introductory essay proposes using the concept of pluralism to explore the multi-dimensiona... Read More about Adaptive migration: pluralising the debate on climate change and migration.

Decolonising geographical knowledges: the incommensurable, the university and democracy (2017)
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Baldwin, W. (2017). Decolonising geographical knowledges: the incommensurable, the university and democracy. Area, 49(3), 329-331. https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12374

This short intervention argues that Eve Tuck and Wayne Yang's notion of an ethic of incommensurability might serve as the basis for rethinking the democratic function of the university in the context of calls to decolonialise geographical knowledge a... Read More about Decolonising geographical knowledges: the incommensurable, the university and democracy.

Climate change, migration, and the crisis of humanism (2017)
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Baldwin, W. (2017). Climate change, migration, and the crisis of humanism. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, 8(3), Article e460. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.460

Climate change is more and more said to be a problem of migration. The common refrain is that climate change will bear in some way on patterns of human mobility, resulting in either insecurity, humanitarian crises, or all manner of inventive adaptive... Read More about Climate change, migration, and the crisis of humanism.

Resilience and race, or climate change and the uninsurable migrant: towards an anthroporacial reading of ‘race’ (2016)
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Baldwin, W. (2017). Resilience and race, or climate change and the uninsurable migrant: towards an anthroporacial reading of ‘race’. Resilience (Abingdon, U.K. : Online), 5(2), 129-143. https://doi.org/10.1080/21693293.2016.1241473

Migration is now often conceived as a legitimate adaptive response to climate change. Numerous critiques have been made of this so-called ‘migration-as-adaptation’ discourse, arguing that the discourse is consistent with the political rationality of... Read More about Resilience and race, or climate change and the uninsurable migrant: towards an anthroporacial reading of ‘race’.

Premediation and white affect: climate change and migration in critical perspective (2015)
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Baldwin, W. (2016). Premediation and white affect: climate change and migration in critical perspective. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 41(1), 78-90. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12106

This paper extends existing debate about the relationship between climate change and migration by locating this debate within the registers of race and difference. The paper argues that the discourse on climate change and migration generates a partic... Read More about Premediation and white affect: climate change and migration in critical perspective.

Responsibility, politics, and reason: a sympathetic comment on Castree. (2015)
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Baldwin, W. (2015). Responsibility, politics, and reason: a sympathetic comment on Castree. Dialogues in Human Geography, 5(3), 317-321. https://doi.org/10.1177/2043820615613217

This commentary offers a set of sympathetic reflections on Noel Castree’s recent interventions on geography, the environmental humanities and the Anthropocene. Whilst largely endorsing Castree’s exhortation that geographers engage analytically and in... Read More about Responsibility, politics, and reason: a sympathetic comment on Castree..

The political theologies of climate change-induced migration (2014)
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Baldwin, A. (2014). The political theologies of climate change-induced migration. Critical Studies on Security, 2(2), 210-222. https://doi.org/10.1080/21624887.2014.932509

This article aims to understand the political theologies at stake in the discourses and practices of climate change-induced migration. The argument proceeds from the idea that climate change-induced migration is an example of the absolute. It then tr... Read More about The political theologies of climate change-induced migration.

Securitizing ‘climate refugees’: the futurology of climate-induced migration (2014)
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Baldwin, W., Methmann, C., & Rothe, D. (2014). Securitizing ‘climate refugees’: the futurology of climate-induced migration. Critical Studies on Security, 2(2), 121-130. https://doi.org/10.1080/21624887.2014.943570

This article serves as the introduction to this special issue in Critical Studies on Security. It begins with a brief overview of the academic debate and policy context concerning climate change and human migration. The principal claim is that critic... Read More about Securitizing ‘climate refugees’: the futurology of climate-induced migration.

Pluralising climate change and migration: an argument in favour of open futures (2014)
Journal Article
Baldwin, A. (2014). Pluralising climate change and migration: an argument in favour of open futures. Geography Compass, 8(8), 516-528. https://doi.org/10.1111/gec3.12145

This paper contextualises the relation between climate change and human migration using the concepts of neoliberalism, sovereignty and otherness. The paper is intended to provide a general account of climate change and migration research, which seeks... Read More about Pluralising climate change and migration: an argument in favour of open futures.