Rowman & Littlefield Publishers / Rowman & Littlefield International
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978-1-78660-119-3 • Hardback • May 2017 • $170.00 • (£131.00)
978-1-78660-120-9 • Paperback • May 2017 • $58.00 • (£45.00)
978-1-78660-121-6 • eBook • May 2017 • $55.00 • (£42.00)
Andrew Baldwin is a Senior Lecturer in Human Geography in the Department of Geography, Durham University. From 2011-2015, he chaired COST Action IS1101 Climate change and migration: knowledge, law and policy, and theory, a pan-European research network of social scientists and humanists. His research examines the intersections of race, whiteness, migration and climate change.
Giovanni Bettini is Lecturer in International Development and Climate Politics at Lancaster University. His research focuses on the genealogy and political effects of discourses on climate change, population, and development, with a particular interest in the connections between climate change, adaptation and mobility.
1. Introduction: Life Adrift, Andrew Baldwin & Giovanni Bettini / Part One: Politics: Territory, Borders and Subjectivities on Shifting Grounds / 2. Climate Change and Crises of Humanism, Wendy Brown / 3. On “Not Being Persecuted”: Territory, Security, Climate, Simon Dalby / 4. Dead in the water, Brad Evans / 5. Unsettling futures: Climate change, migration, and the (ob)scene biopolitics of resilience, Giovanni Bettini / Part Two: Anthropocene: On the Twilights of Human Mobility / 6. Parting Waters: seas of movement, David Theo Goldberg / 7. Transcendental Migration: Taking Refuge from Climate Change, Claire Colebrook / 8. Strangers on a Strange Planet: On Hospitality and Holocene Climate Change, Nigel Clark / 9.
Globalization as a crisis of mobility: a critique of spherology, Arun Saldahna / Part Three: Alterity: Climate, Migration and the (re)Production of Past and Future Difference / 10. The Ecological Migrant in Postcolonial Time, Ranabir Samaddar / 11. Floating Signifiers, Transnational Affect Flows: Climate-induced Migrants in Australian News Discourse, Katherine Russo / 12. Rearranging desire: on whiteness and heteronormativity, Andrew Baldwin / Afterword Gaia Giuliani
The way we understand the causes and effects of migration has a huge impact on how we treat those people labelled as ‘migrants’ and ‘refugees’. This excellent book assembles leading critics across several disciplines who challenge emerging orthodoxies and stereotypes about climate change and human movement. In what some regard as a ‘post-truth’ age, we need reasoned and evidence-based analysis more than ever and this book provides it.
— Noel Castree, Professor of Geography, University of Manchester
An exciting collection that explores the very real crises an increasingly global order face as the impact of climate change and the movements of refugees and immigrants becomes ever more striking. This book provides real insight into what the imminent future promises: unprecedented ecological upheavals and the increasing displacement of millions of subjects. Highly recommended and urgently needed!
— Elizabeth Grosz, Jean Fox O’Barr Women’s Studies Distinguished Professor Emerita, Duke University