Firepower
Geopolitical Cultures in the Anthropocene
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3948814 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Simon Dalby (0000-0002-3455-0735, Balsillie School of International Affairs, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 718-742 |
| Publication date | 2018-07-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Geopolitics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1465-0045 • E-ISSN: 1557-3028 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14650045.2017.1344835 |
| OpenAlex | W2727479916 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 29 |
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 American greatness in terms of traditional understandings of firepower. This clash of geopolitical cultures is now key to global politics, where dramatic landscape transformation, related species extinctions as well as climate change results directly and indirectly from human control of combustion. Firepower is a matter of military technology as well as, in the form of fossil fuel combustion, the essential energy source that fuels the global economy. Focusing on combustion as a key geophysical force in contemporary geopolitics offers useful insights into the Anthropocene discussion and, in particular, the two planetary boundaries of climate change and biodiversity loss, which are key to contemporary efforts at global environmental governance
Anthropocene · Earth system science · Environmental ethics · Geopolitics · Global politics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Global Energy and Sustainability Research · Law · Ecology
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Post-nuclear worldmaking and counter-hegemony
Nato and Collective Environmental Security in the Mena
An Eternal Flame
Oil, materiality and International Relations
On (In-)Secure Grounds
Energy as a weapon of war
Toward Socio‐Legal Geographies of Fire
Thinking through the Earth
Thinking through the Anthropocene
The global politics of the renewable energy transition and the non-substitutability hypothesis
Putting the “geo” into geopolitics
Fuzzy boundaries
The Climate Crisis, Renewable Energy, and the Changing Landscape of Global Energy Politics
Interspecies cosmopolitanism
The Anthropocene Concept in the Natural and Social Sciences, the Humanities and Law – A Bibliometric Analysis and a Qualitative Interpretation (2000–2020)
Vertical fire
The geopolitics of energy system transformation
Concrete Impacts
Whose Streets? Roadway Protests and Weaponised Automobility
Cities on fire
How geoengineering scientists perceive their role in climate security politics – from concern and unease to strategic positioning
Canadian geopolitical culture
The Promise of Prometheus and the Opening up of Pandora’s Box
Popular geopolitics and political memoir
A See change? The problematic (visual) politics of screening the Anthropocene
The 'Green War
Children and young people as geological agents? Time, scale and multispecies vulnerabilities in the new epoch
Interscalar maintenance
| Unique citing works | 29 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,14 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 24 |