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Premediation and white affect: climate change and migration in critical perspective

Baldwin, W.A.

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Abstract

This paper extends existing debate about the relationship between climate change and migration by locating this debate within the registers of race and difference. The paper argues that the discourse on climate change and migration generates a particular racial orientation to climate change called ‘white affect’. To make this argument, the paper connects up two related phenomena: racial neoliberalism and the relationship between affect and biopower. The white affect of climate change and migration discourse is here understood to be an ‘object-target’ of biopolitics. White affect thus becomes an important concept for understanding how racial neoliberalism functions through affective proxy.

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Baldwin, W. (2016). Premediation and white affect: climate change and migration in critical perspective. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 41(1), 78-90. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12106

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Oct 26, 2015
Online Publication Date Dec 9, 2015
Publication Date 2016-01
Deposit Date Oct 26, 2015
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Journal Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
Print ISSN 0020-2754
Electronic ISSN 1475-5661
Publisher Wiley
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 41
Issue 1
Pages 78-90
DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12106
Keywords Climate change, Migration, Race, Neoliberalism, Affect.

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This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Baldwin, A. (2016), Premediation and white affect: climate change and migration in critical perspective. Trans Inst Br Geogr, 41: 78-90., which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12106. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance With Wiley-VCH Terms and Conditions for self-archiving.





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