Andreas Malm Explained

Andreas Malm
Nationality:Swedish
Occupation:Author, professor
Employer:Lund University
Associate professor
Movement:Marxist

Andreas Malm (born)[1] is a Swedish[2] author and an associate professor of human ecology at Lund University.[3] [4] He is on the editorial board of the academic journal Historical Materialism,[5] and has been described as a Marxist.[6] Naomi Klein, who quoted Malm in her book This Changes Everything, has called him "one of the most original thinkers on the subject" of climate change.[7]

Career

In 2010, Malm joined the Socialistiska Partiet; he had been in contact with the party since attending a summer camp it ran in 1997.[8]

In 2014, Malm successfully defended his thesis Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam-Power in the British Cotton Industry, c. 1825–1848, and the Roots of Global Warming, and obtained a PhD from Lund University.[9] He released a reworked version of his thesis as Fossil Capital, published by Verso Books.

During a conference at Stockholm University in December 2023 on Palestinian resistance, Andreas Malm celebrated the "heroic armed resistance in Gaza". He thus expressed his “astonishment” and his “tears of joy” following the Hamas attacks against Israel on 7 October 2023.[10] [11] [12]

Malm has authored several books and is a contributor to the magazine Jacobin.[13] In his book How to Blow Up a Pipeline: Learning to Fight in a World on Fire, published in 2021, he argued that sabotage and property damage are logical components of the movement against human-caused climate change.[14] The book was adapted into the 2022 narrative film How to Blow Up a Pipeline.[15]

In The Guardian, Brett Christophers wrote that Malm's research suggests that manufacturers during the Industrial Revolution switched from water power to steam not because steam was cheaper but because it was more profitable. In particular, steam allowed prime movers to be near cheap labor rather than bound to suitable waterways.[16]

In September 2021, Malm was a guest on The New Yorker Radio Hour, where he echoed the central claim of How to Blow Up a Pipeline by advocating that the climate movement use sabotage as a tactic and embrace a diversity of tactics.[17]

Books

Further reading

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: Im Kapitalozän . Gladić . Mladen . 5 August 2020 . . 12 January 2021 . German . In the Capitalocene . 21 January 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210121030530/https://www.freitag.de/autoren/mladen-gladic/im-kapitalozaen . live.
  2. News: Ehrenreich . Ben . 13 December 2020 . Corona, climate, chronic emergency; What would nature do? . Book review . 12 January 2021 . The Guardian . en . 7 January 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210107103022/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/dec/13/what-would-nature-do-by-ruth-defries-review- . live.
  3. Web site: Schmeisser . Susann . Andreas Malm – Humanities & Social Change . 25 March 2020 . 12 January 2021 . en-US . 14 January 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210114013005/https://hscif.org/andreasmalm/ . live.
  4. Web site: Human ecology . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20160316022836/http://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/lucat/group/v1000679 . 16 March 2016 . Lund University.
  5. Web site: Editorial board . 12 January 2021 . historicalmaterialism.org . 14 January 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210114040558/https://www.historicalmaterialism.org/editorial-board . live.
  6. Crane . Bill . Winter 2016 . Climate change: Capitalism is the culprit . Book review . . 101 . 12 January 2021 . en . 24 January 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210124210141/https://isreview.org/issue/101/climate-change . live.
  7. Web site: Fossil capital: The rise of steam power and the roots of global warming . Web page . 22 October 2023 . versobooks.com . en . 22 September 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230922135724/https://www.versobooks.com/products/135-fossil-capital . live.
  8. Web site: Karlström . Gunvor . 3 May 2010 . Andreas Malm, ekosocialistisk debattör: Därför går jag med i SP . Andreas Malm, eco-socialist debater: Here's why I joined the Socialist Party . Interview . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100512205546/http://www.internationalen.se/2010/05/03/andreas-malm-ekosocialistisk-debattor-darfor-gar-jag-med-i-sp/ . 12 May 2010 . 12 January 2021 . sv.
  9. PhD . Malm . Andreas . 2014 . Fossil capital: The rise of steam-power in the British cotton industry, c. 1825–1848, and the roots of global warming . Sweden . Lund University . en.
  10. fr . Hadrien . Mathoux . "Pleurs de joie" : quand Andreas Malm, penseur adoubé par LFI, justifie l'attaque du Hamas le 7 octobre . 'Cries of joy': Andreas Malm, thinker honored by La France Insoumise, justifies the October 7th Hamas attack . . 2024-04-11 . 2024-04-16. .
  11. News: fr . Simon . Blin . L'activiste écolo Andreas Malm a vécu l'attaque du Hamas le 7 Octobre comme une 'jubilation' . Environmental activist Andreas Malm experienced the Hamas attack on October 7 as 'jubilation' . . 2024-04-10. .
  12. News: fr . Marna . Clément . 7 octobre : l'écologiste suédois Andreas Malm dit avoir vécu l'attaque du Hamas avec 'joie' . Swedish environmentalist Andreas Malm says he experienced the October 7 Hamas attack with 'joy' . . 2024-04-10 . 2024-04-16. .
  13. Web site: Andreas Malm . 12 January 2021 . jacobinmag.com . 14 October 2020 . en-US . 21 January 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210121103103/https://jacobinmag.com/author/andreas-malm . live.
  14. DeChristopher . Tim . 16 February 2021 . In a world on fire, is nonviolence still an option? . live . 18 April 2021 . . en-US . https://web.archive.org/web/20210217033012/https://www.yesmagazine.org/issue/ecological-civilization/2021/02/16/climate-is-nonviolence-still-an-option/ . 17 February 2021.
  15. Goldhaber . Daniel . How to blow up a pipeline . 2023-04-07 . Crime, Drama, Thriller . 2023-09-18 . Ariela Barer, Kristine Froseth, Lukas Gage . Chrono, Lyrical Media, Spacemaker Productions.
  16. News: Christophers . Brett . 25 May 2021 . Big oil companies are driven by profit – they won't turn green by themselves . . London, United Kingdom . 2021-05-25 . 0261-3077 . 25 May 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210525205531/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/may/25/big-oil-companies-profit-green-renewables-fossil-fuels-net-zero . live.
  17. Remnick . David . 2021-09-24 . Should the climate movement embrace sabotage? . live . 2021-09-27 . . en-US . https://web.archive.org/web/20210924201414/https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-new-yorker-radio-hour/should-the-climate-movement-embrace-sabotage . 24 September 2021.
  18. Book: Malm, Andreas . Iran on the brink: Rising workers and threats of war . 2007 . Esmailian, Shora . 978-1-84964-343-6 . London . Pluto Press . 654103854.
  19. Book: Malm, Andreas . 12 January 2016 . Fossil capital: The rise of steam power and the roots of global warming . 978-1-78478-129-3 . London . Verso Books . 900912182.
  20. Web site: 10 June 2014 . Past recipients . 12 January 2021 . The Deutscher Memorial Prize . en-US . 27 February 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150227103652/http://www.deutscherprize.org.uk/wp/past-recipients/ . live.
  21. Book: Malm, Andreas . The progress of this storm: Nature and society in a warming world . 2018 . 978-1-78663-415-3 . London . Verso Books . 1004424810 .
  22. Book: 22 September 2020 . Corona, climate, chronic emergency: War communism in the twenty-first century . 978-1-83976-215-4 . Malm . Andreas . Verso Books . 1153031442.
  23. Book: Malm, Andreas . How to blow up a pipeline: Learning to fight in a world on fire . 5 January 2021 . Verso Books . 978-1-83976-025-9 . London . 1141142279 .
  24. Book: 18 May 2021 . White skin, black fuel: On the danger of fossil fascism . 978-1-83976-174-4 . Malm . Andreas . London . Verso Books.

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