Andrew Baldwin

Biography

Before joining the Geography Department at Durham, I held appointments at the University of Manchester and at Queen's University (Kingston, Ontario) and I received my PhD from Carleton University in 2006. From 2011-2015 I was Chair of COST Action IS1101 Climate Change and Migration, and from 2013-2016 I was Co-Director of the Institute for Hazard, Risk and Resilience (Durham University).

Research Interest

My research examines the intersections of race, nature and geography with a specific current focus on the ways in which discourses and practices of climate change and migration relate to questions of humanism, posthumanism, politics, culture, urbanism and the Anthropocene. Ultimately, my work is motivated to ask how new forms of political community are coming into existence (or not) in relation to looming geohistorical phenomena like climate change and the Anthropocene. This work draws heavily from critical race theory and postcolonial theory and is inspired by writers, such as Paul Gilroy, Michel Foucault, Wendy Brown, and David Theo Goldberg, and, increasingly, Brian Massumi, Elizabeth Povinelli, Laurent Berlant, and William Connolly.