Andrew Baldwin

My research examines the intersections of politics, power and space in relation to three broad phenomena: 1) climate change and human migration; 2. mobility and the Anthropocene; and 3. settler colonialism. I’m especially interested in how the political and scientific discourse of ‘climate mobility’ offers a unique vantage for understanding the convergence of contemporary geopolitics, political economy and the planetary crisis. Informed by a mix of theoretical perspectives, my work is motivated to ask how political authority is adapting to looming geohistorical phenomena like climate change and the Anthropocene.

Many of these themes come together in my 2022 book The Other of Climate Change: Racial Futurism, Migration, Humanism, which theorises how race and racism shape epistemological discussions about climate change and human migration in the realm of international relations. It examines how race and racism are woven into the tropes, forms of knowledge, and habits of speech that comprise the discourse and what they can tell us about a wider set of concepts including the political, neoliberalism, sovereignty, humanism, race, Blackness, and the international.