Questioning environmental security
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5285977 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael Mason (0000-0002-8494-9891, Department of Geography and Environment London School of Economics and Political Science Houghton Street London WC2A 2AE), Mark Zeitoun (0000-0003-1791-0628, Water Security Research Centre School of International Development University of East Anglia Norwich NR4 7TJ) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 179 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 294-297 |
| Publication date | 2013-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Geographical Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-7398 • E-ISSN: 1475-4959 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/geoj.12030 |
| OpenAlex | W2096604291 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 23 |
Threats to and from 'the environment' inform geographical depictions of danger with widespread reach in political and policy circles. These fears invoke an existential anxiety about collapsing conditions of life - from 'dangerous climate change', and species extinctions to fossil fuel depletion and global water shortages. The 'securitisation' of socio-environmental processes is at once both a consequence and driver of such concerns, prescribing urgent, even emergency, measures to prevent serious harm. Against this tendency, the papers in this themed section critically interrogate the application of securitising moves to a series of perceived environmental threats - moves which mark out spaces of safety in terms of 'climate security', 'water security', 'food security' and 'energy security'. Theoretically, the papers serve as a productive foil to the dominant strand of securitisation theory associated with the so-called Copenhagen School. There has been relatively little interrogation by geographers of this approach, despite its strong spatial assumptions: the Copenhagen School posits state-bounded territoriality as the foremost arena of security dynamics, and advances explanatory claims about the conditions and scope for securitisation of the environment. Two featured papers argue that the Copenhagen School perspective on environmental security misses important spatialities of geopolitical power, while two more explore other modes of securitisation - disciplinary, biopolitical and geo-economic - neglected by this approach. For critical geographers the research challenge is, we argue, to capture the distinctive trajectories of securitisation attached to environmental danger, demonstrating that their effects more often than not foreclose rather than protect human freedom and dignity
Computer security · Dignity · Environmental ethics · Environmental security · Geopolitics · Harm · National security · Ontological security · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Security studies · Sociology · Vulnerability (computing · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Global Security and Public Health · Law · Transboundary Water Resource Management
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Energy (in)security
Human security/environmental security
Global climate security governance
Global Environmental Change and Human Security
Critique of Security
Politics of Security
Security and the Environment
Security
Securitization Theory. How Security Problems Emerge and Dissolve
Water security
Macrosecuritisation and security constellations
Water
Closing the Neoliberal Gap
Security of geography/geography of security
Bodies, bombs and barricades
Security and the future
Oil in parallax
Exploring the limits of peak oil
Governing through contingency
Performing security
Climate change, securitisation and theIsraeli-Palestinian conflict
Spaces of security, surveillance and food safety
Securitising shared waters
Insuring "Our Common Future?" Dangerous Climate Change and the Biopolitics of Environmental Security
Apocalypse Forever
| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,75 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2021 (8) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |