Andreas Malm (born 1977) is a Swedish journalist and academic. He is a senior lecturer in human ecology and associate professor of human geography at Lund University. He is a member of the editorial board of the scholarly journal Historical Materialism and has described himself as a Marxist.
Naomi Klein quoted Malm in her book This Changes Everything and has called him "one of the most original thinkers on the subject [of the climate crisis]."
Life Malm initially worked as a journalist. As part of his association with the Central Organisation of Swedish Workers (SAC), he was active in the Swedish Anarcho-Syndicalist Youth Federation (SUF) around 2000 and wrote for the press organ of SAC, Arbetaren, for a number of years. Having attended a summer camp of the Swedish Socialist Party in 1997, he joined it in 2010.
In 2014, Malm obtained a PhD in social and economic geography from Lund University with a thesis called Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam-Power in the British Cotton Industry, c. 1825–1848, and the Roots of Global Warming, supervised by and examined by Timothy Mitchell. He released a reworked version of his thesis as Fossil Capital, published by Verso Books, which won the Deutscher Memorial Prize in 2016.
Malm has authored several books and is a contributor to the magazine Jacobin. In his book How to Blow Up a Pipeline: Learning to Fight in a World on Fire, published in 2021, he argues that sabotage and property damage are logical components of the movement against human-caused climate change. In The Guardian, geographer 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. The book was adapted into the 2022 narrative film How to Blow Up a Pipeline.
Malm has expressed support for the Palestinian right to armed resistance....
In 2025, Malm was awarded Jan Myrdal's big prize – The Lenin Award.
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External links Lund University staff page