Tobias Müller
Tobias Müller is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, co-funded by the Isaac Newton Trust, at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) and Bye-Fellow at Queens’ College, University of Cambridge. He is Principal Investigator of the project “Democratic Futures: Climate change, coloniality and planetary politics from below”. The project investigates the political visions and strategies of the transnational climate movement and how they help us understand the epistemic, spiritual, intersectional, decolonial and reparationist dimensions of planetary politics. His research interests include political and social theory, the politics of climate change, secularism and Islam in Europe, and decolonial and feminist theory. Using ethnographic methods as the basis for theorising, he has conducted fieldwork in Germany, Kenya, Mexico, Uganda, the UK and the US. Previously, he held research and teaching positions at The New Institute, Oxford, Yale, Leiden, the Woolf Institute, and Cambridge, where he received his PhD in Politics and International Studies, where he received his PhD in Politics and International Studies. His work has appeared in the American Behavioral Scientist, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Political Theory, Social Compass, and Space & Culture. He has also published various op-eds, including in Nature.
Address: Queens' College, CB3 9ET Cambridge, UK
Address: Queens' College, CB3 9ET Cambridge, UK
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They see it as a death sentence for people whose countries will literally disappear from the map. This begs the question, where were these voices represented? Why, as an editorial in The Guardian asks, is the “anti-global heating movement not strong enough”?
I spent five days at events around the summit in Glasgow, and like most visitors was never able to step foot into the blue or green zones. The thing I found most striking is the disconnected realities of people that are moving around in one single place, based around one single event.
While it might be obvious that the mood and the conversations “outside” and “inside”, as it was generally framed, were very different, I want to suggest that this binary too much simplifies the multiple layers of activity and strategies pursued outside of the official negotiations. What were the different activist groups trying to achieve? Did they have any success?
It seems to me that there were at least three different layers to the activism around COP26.
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They see it as a death sentence for people whose countries will literally disappear from the map. This begs the question, where were these voices represented? Why, as an editorial in The Guardian asks, is the “anti-global heating movement not strong enough”?
I spent five days at events around the summit in Glasgow, and like most visitors was never able to step foot into the blue or green zones. The thing I found most striking is the disconnected realities of people that are moving around in one single place, based around one single event.
While it might be obvious that the mood and the conversations “outside” and “inside”, as it was generally framed, were very different, I want to suggest that this binary too much simplifies the multiple layers of activity and strategies pursued outside of the official negotiations. What were the different activist groups trying to achieve? Did they have any success?
It seems to me that there were at least three different layers to the activism around COP26.