Rafi Youatt
Rafi Youatt is Associate Professor of Politics at the New School for Social Research, New York City, USA. His main areas of research are global politics and international relations, particularly on questions relating to environment, ecology, anthropocentrism, and the politics of the human.
His book, Interspecies Politics: Nature, States, Borders (University of Michigan Press, 2020), argues that that international politics is in fact a form of interspecies politics, all the way down, with a focus on the politics and ecology of American borderlands. His first book was Counting Species: Biodiversity in Global Environmental Politics, published with University of Minnesota Press in 2015. His work has been widely published in journals including Millennium, International Political Sociology, Political Research Quarterly, and Environmental Values. Collaborations at the New School include the Multiple Mobilities Research Group; he also co-convenes the Global Politics Workshop, dedicated to discussion of work in-progress by graduate students and faculty.