Life Adrift: Climate Change, Migration, Critique

Baldwin, Andrew

ISBN 10: 1786601206 / ISBN 13: 9781786601209

Published by Rowman & Littlefield International, 2017

About this Item

Explores the expanding debate on the influence of climate change on human migration. As climate change stands to alter the distribution of humans and material across the globe, this book offers a set of critical resources for analysing this relationship and reimaging what it might mean to be political in a fully immanent world of bodies in flux. Editor(s): Baldwin, Andrew; Bettini, Giovanni. Series: Geopolitical Bodies, Material Worlds. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: JFFN; RGC; RNPG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. . . 2017. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Life Adrift: Climate Change, Migration, Critique
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield International
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1786601206
• ISBN 13: 9781786601209
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Explores the expanding debate on the influence of climate change on human migration. As climate change stands to alter the distribution of humans and material across the globe, this book offers a set of critical resources for analysing this relationship and reimaging what it might mean to be political in a fully immanent world of bodies in flux.

About the Author

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.