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Premediation and white affect: climate change and migration in critical perspective
Author(s) -
Baldwin Andrew
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
transactions of the institute of british geographers
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.196
H-Index - 107
eISSN - 1475-5661
pISSN - 0020-2754
DOI - 10.1111/tran.12106
Subject(s) - affect (linguistics) , biopower , climate change , white (mutation) , neoliberalism (international relations) , perspective (graphical) , argument (complex analysis) , sociology , political science , political economy , gender studies , politics , ecology , law , biochemistry , chemistry , communication , artificial intelligence , gene , computer science , biology
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.