Professor Andrew Baldwin

Small Group Project 2027

BEACON: Bordering, Ecologies, and Climate Observatory & Network

With Anna Casaglia, Giovanni Bettini, Lise Benoist, Hanna Musiol, Ethemcan Turhan & Marco Armiero

BEACON will consolidate and advance research on right-wing political ecologies of climate change, security and migration, and right-wing populism, contributing to monitoring and countering tendencies towards ecobordering and eco-fascism through academic-activist collaborations.

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Biography

Andrew's research examines the intersections of politics, power and space in relation to the phenomena referred to nowadays as 'climate mobility'. The work asks 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, the research 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 Andrew's 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.

Biographical details correct as of 24.09.26

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