Tracing the spectre that haunts Europe
The visual construction of climate-induced migration in the Mena region
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7737548 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Chris Methmann (Universität Hamburg, corresponding author), Delf Rothe (0000-0003-0425-262X, Helmut Schmidt University) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 162-179 |
| Publication date | 2014-05-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critical Studies on Security (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2162-4887 • E-ISSN: 2162-4909 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/21624887.2014.909226 |
| OpenAlex | W1972373090 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
| References cited | 41 |
Climate-induced migration (CIM) has become a symbol for the dangers to be expected in warming world. Yet at the same time, this human face of global warming is symbolized through news, magazines reports and maps. Focusing on Western projections of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), this article investigates the political implications of the little visual security nothings that construct CIM in that region. We show that the ingrained European idea of MENA as buffer zone against external dangers is challenged by imaginations of an increasingly complex and uncertainty Mediterranean region. MENA is cast as hotspot of mixing social, political and ecological problems, populated by racialized, helpless and passive victims, exposed to an erratic and dangerous climate change. In the words of Deleuze and Guattari, the nomadic figure of the climate migrant/refugee transforms MENA into smooth space that threatens the striated space of the EU
Climate change · Geography · Global warming · Middle East · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Refugee · Social science · Sociology · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration · Global Security and Public Health · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Geology · Oceanography
Leveraging critical race theory to produce equitable climate change adaptation
Approaching Climate Communication
No Power without Knowledge
Where to draw the line? Climate change-conflict-migration-terrorism causal relations and a contested politics of implication
Securitisation through the schoolbook? On facilitating conditions for and audience dispositions towards the securitisation of climate change
Imaginary Wor(l)ds
Mapping Crisis
Seeing like a satellite
Governance
From denial to domestication
A threat to climate-secure European futures? Exploring racial logics and climate-induced migration in US and EU climate security discourses
Facing Apocalypse
Critical geopolitics and school textbooks
Mapping Energy Geopolitics in Europe
The Liberal Way of War
Environment, Scarcity, and Violence
Climate Change and MigrationSecurity and Borders in a Warming World
Politics of Catastrophe
Security
Securitization Theory. How Security Problems Emerge and Dissolve
Why the numbers don’t add up
Labelling the ‘neighbourhood’
Of nomadic unities
Policing Migration in the Mediterranean
Politics for the day after tomorrow
A Timely Prophet? The Doomsday Clock as a Visualization of Securitization Moves with a Global Referent Object
What’s in an act? On security speech acts and little security nothings
Engaging the limits of visibility
Critical Approaches to Security in Europe
Migration and global environmental change
Constructing the Self and Changing Others
Imaging Humanitarianism
Rendering climate change governable by risk
Imaging vulnerability
The European Union and the Securitization of Migration
The outsiders
We Have Never Been Modern
A thousand plateaus
Securitization and Risk at the EU Border
Words, Images, Enemies
Representing HIV/Aids in Africa
Paradoxes and contradictions in EU democracy promotion in the Mediterranean
Theorizing the image for Security Studies
Apartheid cartography
Climate change-induced migration and violent conflict
Preemption, precaution, preparedness
Beyond Risk
Orientalising environmental citizenship
Racialisation and the Figure of the Climate-Change Migrant
Apocalypse Forever
| Unique citing works | 14 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,4 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2026 (11) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |