Tobias Müller (he/him)
Tobias Müller is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow and Isaac Newton Trust, Fellow at the CRASSH and Bye-Fellow at Queens‘ College, University of Cambridge, where he received his PhD in Politics and International Studies. Previously, he held research and teaching positions at Cape Town, Leiden, Hamburg, Oxford, UNAM and Yale.
Tobias is Principal Investigator of the project „Democratic Futures: Climate change, coloniality and planetary politics from below“. He uses ethnography to understand the socio-political thought and practice of movements, taking marginalized people seriously as theorists of their own practice. His current work investigates the political visions and strategies of the transnational climate movement and how they help us understand the epistemic, democratic, 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. He has conducted fieldwork and worked with grassroots organisations across Africa (Kenya, Uganda, South Africa), the Americas (Mexico, USA) and Europe (Germany, UK).
Tobias‘ work has been funded by the Cambridge Trust, the DAAD, the European Research Council, the German National Scholarship Foundation, the Isaac Newton Trust, the Leverhulme Trust, the New Institute Foundation and the Woolf Institute. His work has appeared in the British Journal of Politics and International Studies, Contemporary Political Theory, Environmental Research Letters, Ethnic and Racial Studies and Sociology. He has published various op-eds, including in Nature.
Country/Region of interest/research focus: Kenya, Mexico, South Africa, Uganda, UK, US