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Dr Andrew Baldwin

Contact Dr Andrew Baldwin (email at w.a.baldwin@durham.ac.uk)

Biography

Andrew Baldwin is a lecturer in human geography. Prior to joining Durham University, he was a lecturer in human geography at the University of Manchester (2009) and an assistant professor and postdoctoral research fellow at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario (2006-2008). Andrew received his doctorate from Carleton University in Ottawa in 2006, and was a consultant with the International Institute for Sustainable Development from 2000-2006.

Andrew’s research aims to understand how race and whiteness operate as key terms of reference in the expanding discourse on climate change and migration. As part of this work, Andrew chairs COST Action IS1101 Climate change and migration: knowledge, law and policy, and theory. Beyond this his research interests include race and environmental politics, critical race theory, whiteness, futurity, migration, environmental citizenship and political and cultural theory.

Andrew is currently convenor of the Politics-States-Space research cluster.

Fellowships

• 2006 - 2008 SSHRC Council Postdoctoral Fellowship
• 2004 - 2005 SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship Scholarship

Research Groups

Department of Geography

• Politics - State - Space (PSS)

Research Projects

Department of Geography

• Climate Change and Migration: Knowledge, law and policy, and theory

Selected Publications

Books: edited

• Baldwin, W.A., Cameron, L. & Kobayashi, A. (2011). Rethinking the Great White North: race, nature and the historical geographies of whiteness in Canada. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press.

Books: reviews

• Baldwin, W.A. (2010). Contentious Geographies: Environmental knowledge, meaning and scale. Human Geography 3(2).
• Baldwin, W.A. (2010). Griffith Taylor: visionary, environmentalist, explorer. Journal of Historical Geography 36(1): 106-107.
• Baldwin, W.A. (2008). Understories: The Political Life of Forests in Northern New Mexico. Journal of Historical Geography 34(4): 674-675.
• Baldwin, W.A. (2007). Do Glaciers Listen? Local Knowledge, Colonial Encounters and Social Imagination. Environmental History 12(4).
• Baldwin, W.A. (2007). Logjam: Deforestation and the Crisis of Global Governance. Review of European Community and International Environmental Law 16(3).
• Baldwin, W.A. (2007). Nature and the City: Making Environmental Policy in Toronto and Los Angeles. Historical Geography 35: 275-277.
• Baldwin, W.A. (2007). States of Nature: Conserving Canada's Wildlife in the Twentieth Century. Journal of Historical Geography 33(3).
• Baldwin, W.A. (2006). Handbook of Global Environmental Politics. Review of European Community and International Environmental Law 15(1): 118-120.
• Baldwin, W.A. (2004). A Political Space: Reading the Global through Clayoquot Sound. The Canadian Geographer / Le Géographe canadien 48(1): 83-84.

Books: sections

• Baldwin, W.A. & Meltzer, J. (2012). Environmental Citizenship and Climate Security: Contextualizing Violence and Citizenship in Amazonian Peru. In Environment and Citizenship in Latin America. Latta, A. & Wittman, H. Oxford: Berghahn Books. 2012: 23-38.
• Baldwin, W.A., Cameron, L. & Kobayashi, A. (2011). Where is the Great White North? Spatializing history, historicizing whiteness. In Rethinking the Great White North: race, nature and the historical geographies of whiteness in Canada. Baldwin, W.A., Cameron, L. & Kobayashi, A. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press.
• Baldwin, W.A. & Dalby, S. (2010). Canadian Middle Power Identity, Environmental Biopolitics, and Human Insecurity. In Canada's Foreign and Security Policy: Soft and Hard Strategies of a Middle Power. Hynek, N. & Bosold, D. Oxford.: Oxford University Press. 121-137.
• Baldwin, W.A. & Dalby, S. (2010). Human Security and Canadian Environmental Policy. In Canada's New Foreign and Security Policy Strategies: Assessing Soft and Hard Dimensions of Middlepowerhood. Hynek, N. & Bosold, D. Oxford.: Oxford University Press.
• Baldwin, W.A. (2007). Agenda 21. In Encyclopedia of Environment and Society. Robbins, P. Thousand Oaks, California and London Sage. 1: 10-11.
• Baldwin, W.A. (2007). Boreal Forests. In Encyclopedia of environment and society. Robbins, Paul Sage. 1: 153-154.

Conference papers

• Baldwin, W.A. (2007), Carbon-nation: the relational ontology of carbon scarcity in Canada's boreal forest, Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting. San Francisco, California..
• Baldwin, W.A. (2007), The White Geography of Lawren Stewart Harris: whiteness and the performative coupling of wilderness and multiculturalism in Canada, Canadian Association of Geographers Annual Meeting. University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon..

Edited works: conference proceedings

• Baldwin, W.A. (2008). Whiteness, Nature and Canadian Conservation Politics. International Council of Canadian Studies Biennial Conference, Ottawa.

Journal papers: academic

• Baldwin, A. & Stanley, A. (2013). Introduction: Risky natures, natures of risk. Geoforum 44(2): 2-4.
• Baldwin, W.A. (2013). Racialisation and the figure of the climate change migrant. Environment and Planning A forthcoming.
• Baldwin, W.A. (2013). Vital ecosystem security: emergence, circulation, and the biopolitical environmental citizen. Geoforum 44(2): 52-61.
• (2012). Interivew with Andrew Baldwin. Miradas en Movimiento Special Volume - Naturally Immigrants: 176-182.
• Baldwin, W.A. (2012). Orientalising environmental citizenship: climate change, migration, and the war on potential. Citizenship Studies 16(5-6).
• Baldwin, W.A. (2012). Whiteness and futurity: towards a research agenda. Progress in Human Geography 36(2): 172-187.
• Baldwin, W.A. (2010). Wilderness and tolerance in Flora MacDonald Denison: towards a biopolitics of whiteness. Social and Cultural Geography 11(8): 883-901
• Baldwin, W.A. (2009). Carbon nullius and racial rule: race, nature and the cultural politics of forest carbon in Canada. Antipode 41(2): 231-255.
• Baldwin, W.A. (2009). Ethnoscaping Canada's Boreal Forest: liberal whiteness and its disaffiliation from colonial space. The Canadian Geographer / Le géographe canadien 53(4): 427-443.
• Baldwin, W.A. (2009). The White Geography of Lawren Stewart Harris: Whiteness and the Performative Coupling of Multiculturalism and Nature in Canada. Environment and Planning A 41(3): 529-544.
• Baldwin, W.A. (2004). An Ethics of Connection: Social-nature in Canada's Boreal Forest. Ethics, Place and Environment 7(3): 185-194.
• Baldwin, A. (2003). The Nature of the Boreal Forest: Governmentality and Forest-nature. Space and Culture 6(4): 415-428.

Reports: official

• Baldwin, W.A. (2001). Agriculture Negotiations at the WTO: Context Setting and Intelligence Report. International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development.. Geneva., International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development.

Seminar

• (2012), Pre-empting race: climate change, migration and the future conditional, *Baldwin, W.A Critical Approaches to Environmental Displacement. Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford University.

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