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Security in the Anthropocene : environment, ecology, escape

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Fagan, Madeleine (2017) Security in the Anthropocene : environment, ecology, escape. European Journal of International Relations, 23 (2). pp. 292-314. doi:10.1177/1354066116639738

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1354066116639738

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Abstract

The anthropocene poses a set of conceptual challenges for the study of security in the discipline of International Relations. By complicating the distinction between human and nature, the concept of the anthropocene puts into question one of the key organizing logics of upon which much security discourse is built; what would a security look like whose subject was not modern man? This paper offers a reading of environmental and ecological approaches to security as two potential avenues for rethinking security in the context of the anthropocene. This is done in order to demonstrate the dominance and centrality of the nature/culture binary for conceptualizing the environment, ecology and security. Such a common philosophical horizon problematizes and undermines the scope for a critical reorientation of security thinking from either perspective. Drawing on R.B.J Walker’s concept of the politics of escape, the paper suggests that in attempting to escape the nature/culture binary the move to ecology in fact simultaneously reinscribes and obscures this distinction, thereby limiting the potential of the concept of the anthropocene to offer a critical framework with which to analyze the interplay of nature and culture in contemporary security politics.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: J Political Science > JC Political theory
Divisions: Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Human security
Journal or Publication Title: European Journal of International Relations
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd.
ISSN: 1354-0661
Official Date: June 2017
Dates:
DateEvent
June 2017Published
7 April 2016Available
13 February 2016Accepted
Volume: 23
Number: 2
Page Range: pp. 292-314
DOI: 10.1177/1354066116639738
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Restricted or Subscription Access

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