All Outputs (64)

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.

Race, Migration, and Climate Change: A Cautionary Note (2023)
Book Chapter
Baldwin, W. A. (2023). Race, Migration, and Climate Change: A Cautionary Note. In Climate Migration: Critical Perspectives for Law, Policy and Research. Hart Publishing

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.

The Other of Climate Change: Racial Futurism, Migration, Humanism (2022)
Book
Baldwin, W. (2022). The Other of Climate Change: Racial Futurism, Migration, Humanism. Rowman & Littlefield

Force and Forcing in Baucom's Heterochronic Philosophy of Freedom for the Anthropocene (Review of History 4° Celsius by Ian Baucom. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020) (2022)
Journal Article
Baldwin, W. A. (2022). Force and Forcing in Baucom's Heterochronic Philosophy of Freedom for the Anthropocene (Review of History 4° Celsius by Ian Baucom. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020)

Why we should abandon the concept of the 'climate refugee' (2022)
Newspaper / Magazine
Baldwin, W. A. (2022). Why we should abandon the concept of the 'climate refugee'

Introduction: Whiteness, coloniality, and the Anthropocene (2020)
Journal Article
Baldwin, W., & Erickson, B. (2020). Introduction: Whiteness, coloniality, and the Anthropocene. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 38(1), 3-11. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263775820904485

Climate change refugees (2019)
Book Chapter
Baldwin, W. A. (2020). Climate change refugees. In A. Kobayashi (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of Human Geography (275-279). (2nd). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-08-102295-5.11000-5

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.

From Climate Migration to Anthropocene Mobilities: Shifting the Debate; Editors introduction (2019)
Journal Article
Baldwin, W. A., Fröhlich, C., & Rothe, D. (2019). From Climate Migration to Anthropocene Mobilities: Shifting the Debate; Editors introduction. Mobilities, 14(3), 289-297. https://doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2019.1620510

Thinking with Protevi: difference, the present, and the political (2019)
Journal Article
Baldwin, A. (2019). Thinking with Protevi: difference, the present, and the political. Political Geography, 70, 137-139. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2019.02.002

Life Adrift: climate change, migration, critique (2017)
Book
Baldwin, W., & Bettini, G. (Eds.). (2017). Life Adrift: climate change, migration, critique. Rowman & Littlefield

Rearranging desire: on whiteness and heteronormativity (2017)
Book Chapter
Baldwin, W. (2017). Rearranging desire: on whiteness and heteronormativity. In W. Baldwin, & G. Bettini (Eds.), Life adrift: climate change, migration, critique. Rowman & Littlefield

Theorising Climate Change and Migration: Affect, Politics and the Future Conditional (2017)
Journal Article
Baldwin, W. (2017). Theorising Climate Change and Migration: Affect, Politics and the Future Conditional. Insights, 10-11,

Adaptive migration: pluralising the debate on climate change and migration (2017)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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.

Introduction: Life adrift (2017)
Book Chapter
Baldwin, W., & Bettini, G. (2017). Introduction: Life adrift. In W. Baldwin, & G. Bettini (Eds.), Life adrift: climate change, migration, critique. Rowman & Littlefield

Concluding remarks: on the politics of climate change, migration and human rights (2017)
Book Chapter
Baldwin, W. (2017). Concluding remarks: on the politics of climate change, migration and human rights. In D. Manou, W. A. Baldwin, D. Cubie, T. Thorp, & A. Mihr (Eds.), Climate Change, Migration and Human Rights: Law and Policy Perspectives. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315622217

From 2011 to 2015, the author had the good fortune to chair a major European research initiative called 'Climate Change and Migration: Knowledge, Law and Policy, and Theory'. This chapter represents a small but important slice of the wider COST dialo... Read More about Concluding remarks: on the politics of climate change, migration and human rights.