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Security, the Environment and Emancipation - Contestation over Environmental Change (Hardcover, New)
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Security, the Environment and Emancipation - Contestation over Environmental Change (Hardcover, New)
Series: PRIO New Security Studies
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This book offers an examination of the role of emancipation in the
study and practice of security, focusing on the issue of
environmental change. The end of the Cold War created a context in
which traditional approaches to security could be systematically
questioned. This period also saw a concerted attempt in IR to argue
that environmental change constituted a threat to security. This
book argues that such a notion is problematic as it suggests that a
universal definition of security is possible, which prevents a
recognition of security as a site of contestation, in which a range
of actors articulate alternative visions of who or what is in need
of being secured. If security is understood and approached in
traditional terms - as the territorial preservation of the
nation-state from external threat - then it is indeed difficult to
see how environmental issues would benefit from being placed on
states' security agenda. If, however, security is defined in terms
of the emancipation of the most vulnerable individuals from
contingent structural oppressions, then drawing a relationship
between environmental change and security may be beneficial for
redressing those environmental issues and prioritising the needs of
those most at risk from the manifestations of global environmental
change. This book takes the limitations of contemporary approaches
to the relationship between the environment and security as its
starting point, and seeks to do two things. First, it aims to
illustrate the ways in which arguments over approaches to
environmental issues can be viewed as contestation over the meaning
of 'security' in particular political contexts. Central here is the
composition and assumptions of the dominant security discourse to
emerge regarding those issues: a framework of meaning for the most
important forms of action on behalf of a particular group, defining
the terms for meaningful contestation and negotiation about
security itself within that group. As such, the book attempts to
illustrate the dynamics of competition over the meaning of security
with reference to environmental issues, particularly focusing on
instances of political change in the dominant security discourse
through which that issue is approached. In the process the author
points to the central role of these dominant security discourses in
underpinning the most practically significant actions regarding
environmental issues such as deforestation and global climate
change. The book employs methodological tools that enable a focus
on how particular frameworks of meaning are constituted and become
dominant; how they provide a lens through which various issues are
approached; and how discourses most consistent with redressing
environmental change and the suffering of the most vulnerable might
come to provide the framework through which security is viewed in
particular contexts. This book will be of much interest to students
of Critical Security Studies, geography, sociology, IR and
Political Science in general.
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