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class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Felix\u2019s research focuses on the interplay between political economy and political geography.<br \/>He is particularly interested in understanding how shifting conceptions of geopolitics and geoeconomics have travelled across space and profoundly reshaped our political and economic histories. As part of his work at CNR, he currently studies the relation between global precious metals markets, resource geopolitics and the so-called green energy transition. He also works on a longer-term book project that studies the influence of central banks on the globalisation of capital.<\/p><p>His prior research has been centred on the global ocean economy and ocean politics. In particular, he investigated the origins and effects of the blue economy, the political economy of sea-level rise, deep-sea mining and the geopolitics of Large Marine Protected Areas. Felix has a longstanding interest in the Pacific islands\u2019 region, where he conducted much of his fieldwork and regularly advised governments on spatial and resource politics.<br \/>His work has been published in journals such as Environment &amp; Planning: A, International Affairs, Transactions of the British Institute of Geographers and Journal of Agrarian Change.<\/p><p>Felix gained a scholarship-funded PhD degree in geography from National University of Singapore and King\u2019s College London. He subsequently worked as a Postdoc in the International Relations group at University of Copenhagen; as Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow in Geography at the National University of Singapore; and as a Lecturer in Political and Environmental Geography at University of Fribourg, Switzerland. Prior to his PhD, he worked in foreign policy with diplomatic experiences at various embassies, including the UN in New York. He holds an MA in Geopolitics, Territory &amp; Security from King\u2019s College London.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-63006840 elementor-section-content-top elementor-section-full_width elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"63006840\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-background-overlay\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-no\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-3d8f5861\" data-id=\"3d8f5861\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8053047 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"8053047\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Main Publications<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-296fe959 elementor-widget-divider--view-line elementor-widget elementor-widget-divider\" data-id=\"296fe959\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"divider.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-divider\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-divider-separator\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c6def0e elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"c6def0e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul><li>Mallin, F (2025). Blue Economy Struggles\u2014Capital and Power in the Global Ocean: Introduction.\u00a0<br \/>Journal of Agrarian Change, Vol. 25(3), e70014; doi: <a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/joac.70014\">10.1111\/joac.70014<\/a>;<\/li><li>Mallin, F &amp; Sidaway, J (2025) Five theses on geoeconomics. Environment &amp;amp; Planning: A, Vol. 57(1),<br \/>pp.149-55; doi: <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/full\/10.1177\/0308518X241265598\">10.1177\/0308518X24126559<\/a>;<\/li><li>Mallin, F &amp; Sidaway, J (2024) Critical geoeconomics: A genealogy of writing politics, economy and<br \/>space. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 49 (1), doi: <a href=\"https:\/\/rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/full\/10.1111\/tran.12600\">10.1111\/tran.12600<\/a>;<\/li><li>Bueger, C &amp; Mallin, F (2023) Blue paradigms: understanding the intellectual revolution in global<br \/>ocean politics. International Affairs Vol. 99(4), pp. 1719\u20131739; doi: <a href=\"https:\/\/watermark02.silverchair.com\/iiad124.pdf?token=AQECAHi208BE49Ooan9kkhW_Ercy7Dm3ZL_9Cf3qfKAc485ysgAAA0swggNHBgkqhkiG9w0BBwagggM4MIIDNAIBADCCAy0GCSqGSIb3DQEHATAeBglghkgBZQMEAS4wEQQMX4qXA_EyZiAlP9SzAgEQgIIC_ikP3z-N-XM4P18DMMl6ouEkN4rav8_Rk90UDMjSEbBSmVDUeK5ewv9sWZoFp-k9Reuq039v5oNu60MNvQdwp9CVdtF-onMgFmQ92WMJVZP8xOru8hTZ5JAFhMW00HelGwHO1ogW3SAOjHXrqp6UKcH2N2qFjJLAqbZHiH25p6Jlgic-j_mxnyRy5NzQDiAfROPnp4Pl74oeK3Hiaj3mrn0y9CJ_1saULbfwpYwLB3_C2_MXiDCS7m7jPsV3TG9CP2iCca12WqRbSohkYnz7r3WqQ1t1OJG7kTL2IA0aS5e6QmczQ4AItG18fIpA-BNddKUCbiwDBqy6zqXuCeISSnZRzl_CZVEcrIbhv5ZK8ESuHYrh4K2oLr5q_3brK9O4PzbceXPPSR-O371rcBQ9PClutryEomu3LpCdXjcQhqlKv1GeFKutiBQCX7zGS3lh83sF3OGErPb0nDi1-kqXC2oGPI2EI2awSmIJRKo1tnLwL44JPuAouJRG_ZTM7Fr5GFdB0qeDSdB4bygQOp5lRnxhZFTdIxoSyHjo3MhTr1-AHmQbwJeiTcn6Xog-MHC86p-efzpM14i1kL-d1Kia3Armd6jhY4Uqyo1awYxv4tumBopG5h4svCTURcTpAFqrMfkezjFQeRnQLHNIY5JwKh8f6fdAyeVdoSLtTyVWUo-Dw9kF7uL9-ppNEzc0g6yM8Ry-XMjneURyCXPwmrN8rAjpdJZCbfg5KHlRaIXGYp5-Hg9qmEHE-YXgYxKw79ftReUXB18uMTk4sQ3zQZlCKkupLxq7bTSye4He_YIkNOUcT6ouBGGSaZe2wel3t6hUHTGmV8TlV8Dyu8RVVI6ladch3zKJoPp6s8gluMVzouHZ9oM12DUszRjnaPmQeEUhj-oUcZWNEwdsWbHxyCdvqaqtR9gn-OxHbwZko7bKaqoQHKs70kpdQo862MnYU2MNeSvgUrpFn6Rm9Ydn7Zsk-_6kk3T4biJl1ArrR5RsHq8UXvS4gllzBaDw_EoL2NA\">10.1093\/ia\/iiad124;<\/a><\/li><li>Mallin, F &amp; Barbesgaard, M (2020). Awash with contradiction: Capital, ocean space and the logics of<br \/>the Blue Economy Paradigm. Geoforum, Vol 113, pp. 121-132; <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.geoforum.2020.04.021\">doi.org\/10.1016\/j.geoforum.2020.04.021<\/a><\/li><li>Mallin, F, Stolz, D, Thompson B &amp; Barbesgaard, M (2019) In oceans we trust: Conservation,<br \/>philanthropy and the political economy of the Phoenix Islands Protected Area. Marine Policy,<br \/>Vol 107 (103421); <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.marpol.2019.01.010\">doi.org\/10.1016\/j.marpol.2019.01.010<\/a><\/li><li>Mallin, F (2018). From sea-level rise to seabed grabbing: The political economy of climate change in<br \/>Kiribati. 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