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Life Adrift: Climate Change, Migration, Critique (Geopolitical Bodies, Material Worlds) by Andrew Baldwin; Giovanni Bettini; Rowman and Littlefield is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Life Adrift: Climate Change, Migration, Critique (Geopolitical Bodies, Material Worlds) about?

Life Adrift critically engages with two of the most defining issues of our contemporary global political economy: migration and climate change. In their own right, both are discrete areas of politics, theory, practice, and resistance. But as climate and migration are increasingly imagined together as a singular relation, they are giving rise to new horizons of meaning in politics, philosophy, media, art and literature. Life Adrift is a collection of essays from across the interpretive social sciences and humanities which treats climate change and migration as a relation that demands theoretical and historical explanation, rather than a problem requiring technical and expert solutions. The result is a unique collection, offering readers a means for reconceptualising migration and environmental changes as a site of politics and of political possibility. Along the way it addresses a range of topics current in cultural and political theory, including democracy, place, neoliberalism, humanism, materiality, borders, affect, race and sexuality. If climate change stands to redistribute humans and material across the globe, then Life Adrift offers a set of critical resources for analysing t

Author

Andrew Baldwin; Giovanni Bettini; Rowman and Littlefield

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781786601216

Subjects

Science, Political Science, Sociology