Simon Dalby
Biographic Data
| ID | 186457 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Simon Dalby |
| GIVEN NAMES | Simon |
| FAMILY NAME | Dalby |
| SIGNATURE | DALBY S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Carleton University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3455-0735 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 97 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1199 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 95 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 18 |
Trump: Anomalía O Heraldo De Un Orden Geopolítico Nuevo
El objetivo de este foro de debate es entender si el gobierno de Donald Trump en los Estados Unidos es una anomalía en el orden geopolítico que nació tras la Guerra Fría o si anuncia un nuevo orden geopolítico. En la actualidad, el poder global se caracteriza por una transformación profunda en sus formas y actores. Ya no existe una única geometría de poder basada exclusivamente en la hegemonía de grandes potencias o en la clásica disputa de esfer…
Trump: Anomaly or Herald of a New Geopolitical Order
The aim of this discussion forum is to understand whether the Donald Trump administration in the United States is an anomaly in the geopolitical order that emerged after the Cold War or whether it heralds a new geopolitical order. Currently, global power is characterized by a profound transformation in its forms and actors. There is no longer a single geometry of power based exclusively on the hegemony of great powers or on the classic struggle f…
Reframing climate security: The “planetary” as policy context
Conventional climate security discussions fail to grapple with earth system science. • Climate security should be reformulated in terms of the current planetary context. • Adaptability, sustainable habitats and fossil fuel control are the key elements needed. • Major derailment risks loom if urgent climate change action isn’t undertaken. Much of the discussion under the label of “climate security” focuses on potential conflicts and disruptions in…
La destrucción asegurada: La Potencia De Fuego, El Cambio Climático Y Los Dilemas De Seguridad
Las nociones tradicionales de un dilema de seguridad deben actualizarse para abordar las inseguridades que surgen a medida que se acelera el cambio climático. Los dilemas de seguridad solían centrarse en la sospecha mutua, que provocaba la producción de armas para mejorar las capacidades de potencia de fuego en busca de seguridad por parte de un Estado, que a su vez desencadenaba respuestas de otros y las carreras armamentistas resultantes. Ahora…
Rethinking Environmental Security
This thought-provoking book explores how the global ecological crisis profoundly challenges conventional meanings of environmental security and raises important questions about how states and other institutions now face the future
Thinking through the Anthropocene
Unsustainable Borders: Globalization in a Climate-Disrupted World
Climate change and the responses to it reveal starkly different assumptions about borders, security and the ethical communities for whom politicians and activists speak. Starting with the contrasting perspectives of international activist Greta Thunberg and United States President Donald Trump on climate change this essay highlights the diverse political assumptions implicit in debates about contemporary globalization. Rapidly rising greenhouse g…
Critical Geopolitics/critical geopolitics 25 years on
Anthropocene Geopolitics: Globalization, Security, Sustainability
We now find ourselves in a new geological age: the Anthropocene. The climate is changing and species are disappearing at a rate not seen since Earth’s major extinctions. The rapid, large-scale changes caused by fossil-fuel powered globalization increasingly threaten societies in new, unforeseen ways. But most security policies continue to be built on notions that look back- ward to a time when geopolitical threats derived mainly from the rivalrie…
Geopolitics at 25: An Editorial Journey through the Journal's History
Environmental (In)Security
Human insecurity is a matter of both environmental and social circumstances. In recent decades concerns with environmental change and its possible impacts on human societies have been linked to policy discussions of security. Scholarly analyses of resources, environment, change, and conflict suggest that these are far from simple linkages; scarcities and abundant resources are related to conflict but in complex ways. Discussions of the collapse o…
What happens if we don’t take nature for granted?
In the early 1970s some thinkers revived concerns usually linked to the name of Thomas Malthus that resources would run out, stopping economic growth. Designed to promote economic activity that would not deny future generations the necessities for their livelihood, sustainable development was the key theme in the widely cited final report of the World Commission on Environment and Development headed by Gro Harlem Brundtland, Our Common Future . W…
Bordering sustainability in the Anthropocene
While environmental matters rarely respect political boundaries, efforts to govern resource, pollution, wildlife and numerous other matters are often profoundly shaped by territorial jurisdiction. Direct regulation, trade restrictions and forms of international cooperation have all shaped global efforts at environmental governance, while fortress conservation ideas frequently invoke territorial exclusivity. The context for these measures has been…
Canadian geopolitical culture: Climate change and sustainability
Key Messages Canadian nationalist rhetoric is still premised on resource extraction despite discussions of climate change by the Liberal government since 2015. Taking earth system science seriously requires rethinking national identity and the conventional geopolitical premises on which it is based. Meeting Paris Agreement on Climate Change commitments requires much more fundamental changes than Canadian Federal government rhetoric so far acknowl…
The Anthropocene Thesis
The theme of the Anthropocene raises fundamental questions for how world politics is now to be understood. Geopolitics can now no longer take the context of the human drama for granted; transformations are afoot that are of humanity’s own making. Nature is increasingly being produced at the largest of scales, and political thinking has to come to terms with this new condition. Globalization is, it turns out, a profoundly physical process, not jus…
Climate and wartalk: Metaphors, imagination, transformation
Fossil fuel divestment activists re-imagine how the war metaphor can be used in climate change action to transform thinking around what will lead to a sustainable society. Through the naming of a clear enemy and an end goal, the overused war metaphor is renewed. By casting the fossil fuel industry in the role of enemy, fossil fuel divestment activists move to a re-imagining of the climate change problem as one that is located in the here and now …
Divestment discourse: War, Justice, Morality and Money
The fossil fuel divestment movement has been a vibrant novel development in climate change politics in recent years, particularly in North America. Here, the character of the discourse used to promote divestment as a strategy is explored. The divestment discourse is shown to rest on four overlapping narratives, those of war and enemies, morality, economics and justice. All four are clearly discernible in statements from movement activists, in cov…
Diplomatic material: Affect, Assemblage, and Foreign Policy
Diplomatic material: affect, assemblage, and foreign policy." Social & Cultural Geography, 19(5), pp. 693–694
Firepower: Geopolitical Cultures in the Anthropocene
The human control of fire is a relatively neglected part of the discussion of the contemporary transformation of the planet. Thinking about it in terms of geopolitics is a way to link climate adaptation, extinction and the possibilities of extending traditional analyses of political ecology to the global scale. Such thinking is explicitly rejected as the appropriate premises for foreign policy action by the Trump administration which poses Americ…
Geopolitics and Peace: A Century of Change in the Discipline of Geography
Peace has re-emerged as a theme in political geography in the past few years, but it has a longer history in the discipline. Different positions on peace are epitomized by both the International Geographical Union, whose founding was proposed in London exactly a century ago, and by Halford Mackinder. That historical discussion, related to what was often called ‘political realism’, has been overtaken in recent years by a different disciplinary foc…
Critical geopolitics: Discourse, difference, and dissent
In the 1980s international relations theory has been undergoing a major methodological and theoretical debate which has challenged much of the recent disciplinary orthodoxy. This has been inspired by the introduction of contemporary critical social theory and poststructuralist themes into international relations by a new generation of practitioners. Given the close intellectual proximity of international relations to political geography’s concern…
Defending Planet Politics
Anthropocene Formations: Environmental Security, Geopolitics and Disaster
The discussion of the Anthropocene makes it clear that contemporary social thought can no longer take nature, or an external 'environment', for granted in political discussion. Humanity is remaking its own context very rapidly, not only in the processes of urbanization but also in the larger context of global biophysical transformations that provide various forms of insecurity. Disasters such as the Fukushima nuclear meltdowns and potentially dis…
Environmental security, geopolitics and the case of Lake Urmia’s disappearance
Geopolitics, climate change and environmental security operate in complicated and sometimes directly conflictual ways. Driven in part by national policies of food self-sufficiency in response to economic sanctions imposed on Iran by American and European policies, the destruction of one of the world’s largest inland lakes raises questions about the interaction of multiple forms of security, and in particular how securitizations by various actors …
Planet Politics: A Manifesto from the End of IR
Planet Politics is about rewriting and rethinking International Relations as a set of practices, both intellectual and organisational. We use the polemical and rhetorical format of the political manifesto to open a space for inter-disciplinary growth and debate, and for thinking about legal and institutional reform. We hope to begin a dialogue about both the limits of IR, and of its possibilities for forming alliances and fostering interdisciplin…
Planet Politics: A Manifesto from the End of IR
Planet Politics is about rewriting and rethinking International Relations as a set of practices, both intellectual and organisational. We use the polemical and rhetorical format of the political manifesto to open a space for inter-disciplinary growth and debate, and for thinking about legal and institutional reform. We hope to begin a dialogue about both the limits of IR, and of its possibilities for forming alliances and fostering interdisciplin…
Critical Geopolitics: Discourse, Difference, and Dissent
In the 1980s international relations theory has been undergoing a major methodological and theoretical debate which has challenged much of the recent disciplinary orthodoxy. This has been inspired by the introduction of contemporary critical social theory and poststructuralist themes into international relations by a new generation of practitioners. Given the close intellectual proximity of international relations to political geography's concern…
After the Anthropocene: Politics and geographic inquiry for a new epoch
Crutzen and Stoermer's (2000) naming of the 'Anthropocene' has provoked lively debate across the physical and social sciences, but, while the term is gradually gaining acceptance as the signifier of the current geological epoch, it remains little more than a roughly defined place-holder for an era characterized by environmental and social uncertainty. The term invites deeper considerations of its meaning, significance, and consequences for though…
Gender and Critical Geopolitics; Reading Security Discourse in the New World Disorder
In the early 1990s a new generation of scholars has tackled matters of feminist perspectives on war, peace, and specifically the academic discipline of international relations. A similar confrontation between traditional scholarly themes and gender-sensitive analyses within critical geopolitics is now obviously necessary. Although authors such as Cynthia Enloc have written about global politics and the role of women in international relations in …
Anthropocene Geopolitics: Globalisation, Empire, Environment and Critique
Critique is about challenging the taken for granted categories in scholarly and political discourse. Three aspects of contemporary politics at the biggest of scales are subject to critique here: the assumptions underlying the War on Terror, globalisation and the notion of environment. The global War on Terror is not really global, and might well be better understood by using imperial analogies from the past. Globalisation, once its implicit geogr…
The geopolitics of climate change
Recontextualising violence, power and nature: The next twenty years of critical geopolitics
Reconceptualising local community: Environment, Identity and Threat
Economic ‘development’ driven by global economic forces produces specific expressions of ‘community’ in places where large new economic projects are to be located. This paper draws on contemporary geopolitical literature to theorise community identity as partly formulated in response to external ‘threats’. A comparative study of community mobilisation in response to proposals to locate coastal superquarries on the Isle of Harris, Outer Hebrides, …
Anthropocene Formations: Environmental Security, Geopolitics and Disaster
The discussion of the Anthropocene makes it clear that contemporary social thought can no longer take nature, or an external 'environment', for granted in political discussion. Humanity is remaking its own context very rapidly, not only in the processes of urbanization but also in the larger context of global biophysical transformations that provide various forms of insecurity. Disasters such as the Fukushima nuclear meltdowns and potentially dis…
Geopolitical Discourse: The Soviet Union as other
Biopolitics and climate security in the Anthropocene
Security, Modernity, Ecology: The Dilemmas of Post-Cold War Security Discourse
The sense of enhanced generated at least in some Northern countries by the events of 1989 was dissipated, in part, by the war in the Gulf. Although other military threats once again loomed on the political horizon, the slightly more distant memories of famine in Ethiopia and the blistering drought of the summer of 1988 in North America have not faded entirely. Concerns about the greenhouse effect and pollution remain, albeit now in slightly reduc…
Ecopolitical discourse: Environmental Security' and Political Geography
Warrior geopolitics: Gladiator, Black Hawk Down and The Kingdom Of Heaven
Imperialism, Domination, Culture: The Continued Relevance of Critical Geopolitics
Twenty years ago Gearóid Ó Tuathail called for an approach within Political Geography that made geopolitical culture and the formulation of foreign policy the object of analysis. He specified the task of what subsequently became critical geopolitics as the need to expose the complicity of geopolitics with domination and imperialism. After the cold war there was a decade when military matters declined in importance and globalisation confused the g…
Framing the Anthropocene: The good, the bad and the ugly
The Anthropocene has become a key theme in contemporary speculations about the meaning of the present and the possibilities for the future. While ecomodernists argue that current circumstances present opportunities and possibilities for a thriving future for humanity, a 'good Anthropocene', critics suggest that the future will be bad for at least most of humanity as we accelerate the sixth extinction event on the planet. The geopolitics of all th…
Calling 911: Geopolitics, security and America's new war
The events of 11 September and their aftermath led rapidly to a military response by American forces in Afghanistan. The assumption that a state of war existed was widespread and quickly became official policy, but events might have been interpreted differently. Geopolitical reasoning was crucial to the specification of matters in terms of warfare. Three major assumptions were widely prevalent in the public discussions in the United States. First…
Critical Geopolitics/critical geopolitics 25 years on
The 'Kiwi disease: Geopolitical discourse in Aotearoa/New Zealand and the South Pacific
Environmental Geopolitics in the Twenty-first Century
Rising concerns about climate change and the growing realization that humanity has become a geological agent shaping planetary systems have led to the adoption of the term Anthropocene as an overarching term for the current period of planetary history. The growing disjunction between traditional geopolitical specifications of territorial and spatial categories of politics and the new geological circumstances require a reconsideration of the mater…
The critical geopolitics constellation: Problematizing Fusions of Geographical Knowledge and Power
Political Space: Autonomy, Liberalism, and Empire
Many attempts to think about contemporary politics express spatial metaphors affirming a close association between political space and the territorial state. On the basis of an analysis of the general consequences of such metaphors in relation to recent literatures on empire or globalization, this article examines the way they enable cartographies of violence associated with the “global war on terror” and the reinscription of national strategies …
Reading Rio, writing the world: The New York Times and the 'Earth Summit
Regions, Strategies and Empire in the Global War on Terror
The often overlooked economic dimensions of the current American national security strategy bridge the military policies of the neo-conservative Bush doctrine with the neo-liberal tendencies of economic globalisation. They do so by explicitly extending control into the “dangerous periphery” of the global economy by strategies that attempt to integrate these regions into the global economy. Reading recent official American defence documents in par…
Creating the Second Cold War: The Discourse of Politics
Geopolitical Discourse: The Soviet Union as other
American security discourse: The persistence of geopolitics
Creating the Second Cold War: The Discourse of Politics
Critical Geopolitics: Discourse, Difference, and Dissent
In the 1980s international relations theory has been undergoing a major methodological and theoretical debate which has challenged much of the recent disciplinary orthodoxy. This has been inspired by the introduction of contemporary critical social theory and poststructuralist themes into international relations by a new generation of practitioners. Given the close intellectual proximity of international relations to political geography's concern…
Ecopolitical discourse: Environmental Security' and Political Geography
Security, Modernity, Ecology: The Dilemmas of Post-Cold War Security Discourse
The sense of enhanced generated at least in some Northern countries by the events of 1989 was dissipated, in part, by the war in the Gulf. Although other military threats once again loomed on the political horizon, the slightly more distant memories of famine in Ethiopia and the blistering drought of the summer of 1988 in North America have not faded entirely. Concerns about the greenhouse effect and pollution remain, albeit now in slightly reduc…
IV. Reading peet, (re)reading Fukuyama
The 'Kiwi disease: Geopolitical discourse in Aotearoa/New Zealand and the South Pacific
Critical Geopolitics: Unfolding Spaces for Thought in Geography and Global Polities
Gender and Critical Geopolitics; Reading Security Discourse in the New World Disorder
In the early 1990s a new generation of scholars has tackled matters of feminist perspectives on war, peace, and specifically the academic discipline of international relations. A similar confrontation between traditional scholarly themes and gender-sensitive analyses within critical geopolitics is now obviously necessary. Although authors such as Cynthia Enloc have written about global politics and the role of women in international relations in …
Continent adrift: Dissident security discourse and the Australian geopolitical imagination
The Environment as Geopolitical Threat: Reading Robert Kaplan's 'Coming Anarchy
Reading Rio, writing the world: The New York Times and the 'Earth Summit
The critical geopolitics constellation: Problematizing Fusions of Geographical Knowledge and Power
Writing critical geopolitics: Campbell, Ó Tuathail, Reynolds and dissident skepticism
Reconceptualising local community: Environment, Identity and Threat
Economic ‘development’ driven by global economic forces produces specific expressions of ‘community’ in places where large new economic projects are to be located. This paper draws on contemporary geopolitical literature to theorise community identity as partly formulated in response to external ‘threats’. A comparative study of community mobilisation in response to proposals to locate coastal superquarries on the Isle of Harris, Outer Hebrides, …
Rio: Unravelling the consequences
Ecological Metaphors of Security: World Politics in the Biosphere
For security, the genealogist would insist, is not a fact of nature but a fact of civilization. It is not a noun that names something, it is a principle of formation that does things. It is neither an ontological predicate of being, nor an objective need, but the progenitor instead of a proliferating array of discourses of danger within whose brutal and brutalizing networks of power-knowledge modern human being is increasingly ensnared and, ironi…
Globalisation or global apartheid? Boundaries and knowledge in postmodern times
(1998). Globalisation or global apartheid? Boundaries and knowledge in postmodern times. Geopolitics: Vol. 3, Boundaries Territory and Postmodernity, pp. 132-150
The Myth of Continents: A Critique of Metageography
Jousting with Malthus' ghost: Environment and conflict after the cold war
G. Baechler, Violence through Environmental Discrimination: Causes, Rwanda Arena, and Conflict Model, Dordrecht: Kluwer 1999. A. Carius and K.M. Lietzmann (eds), Environmental Change and Security: A European Perspective, Berlin: Springer 1999. T. Homer Dixon, Environment, Scarcity and Violence, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press 1999. K.M. Lietzmann and G.D. Vest (eds), Environment and Security in an International Context, Bonn: North Atla…
Classics in human geography revisited
Introduction: Rethinking Geopolitics
Is geopolitics dead? At first glance the end of the Cold War, the deepening impacts of ‘globalization’ and the de-territorializing consequences of new informational technologies seem to have driven a stake into the heart of geopolitics. As the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, so also crumbled a pervasive and persuasive order of geopolitical understanding about meaning and identity across global political space. Particularistic and parochial yet neverthe…
Rethinking Geopolitics
Global Environment/Local Culture: Metageographies Of Post-Colonial Resistance
Simon Dalby highlights the metageography —i.e., the spatial structure through which people order the world— underlying the current debate on the place of national state in the current order and in our political imaginaries. Taking the example of the Cape Breton Mi'kmaq and their struggle against the exploitation of Klooscap Mountain, Dalby argues for a rethinking of the spatial concepts guiding contemporary struggle. The increasingly dense and ra…
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