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Michael Lomotey

Michael Lomotey

Last modified: November 24, 2025
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Doctoral Researcher
University of Southampton

mnl1e22@soton.ac.uk

About


The sector(s) I work in: Academic

southampton.ac.uk


Professional qualifications:
  • Doctoral research
    (PhD student)
  • MSc Climate and Ecology Adaptation Planning
    (with Distinction)
  • FRSA

About the organisation(s) I've worked for


Organisation name:

University of Southampton


About my experience and expertise


Personal statement:

My research uses the Black Radical Tradition and especially antiblackness as theoretical, ontological and conceptual frameworks to interrogate and uncover truths in climate change discourse. My research has taken me back to Hull where I was raised, which is a city at risk from flooding and other climate hazards. In Hull as an activist-scholar I’ve been working with the Black community, and together with my people there we’ve been looking for solutions to climate change that are emancipatory, equitable, inclusive and therefore more efficient.


Key topic areas of research or interest:

The Black Radical Tradition and Antiblackness; The intersection of Black Ecologies and Critical Climate/Environmental Justice; Adaptation and Mitigation
UK Black Environmentalism; Disaster Risk Reduction and the Black community. https://www.southampton.ac.uk/people/62725m/mr-michael-lomotey#about


Publications:

Lomotey, M. (2024) ‘Antiblackness in Flood Risk in Hull: The Afterlife of Colonialism’, in F. Sultana (ed.) Confronting Climate Coloniality. 1st edn. London and New York: Earthscan from Routledge (Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research), pp. 171–187. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003465973-14/antiblackness-flood-risk-hull-michael-lomotey


Other projects and networks:

  • Black communities as key local actors to tackling climate change: barriers and opportunities, Michael Lomotey, 2023, Conference paper
  • Provocation, antiblackness is a stumbling block to radical transformative and hopeful change, Michael Lomotey, 2023. Conference paper
  • Black futures: antiblackness as a theoretical framework through which to uncover truths in climate change discourses, Michael Lomotey, 2023. Conference paper
  • Ecofascism and far-right ecologism: ecofascist creep and antisemitism in populist environmental movements, Michael Lomotey, 2025, for Diaspora Alliance
  • Response to the call for evidence on flood resilience in England: missing social equity Michael Lomotey, 2025
  • Decolonising Nature Finance, Michael Lomotey, 2025, for IIED

https://www.southampton.ac.uk/people/62725m/mr-michael-lomotey#publications



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