Climate terror
Subtitle: a critical geopolitics of climate change
By: Sanjay Chaturvedi, Professor of Political Science, Centre for the Study of Geopolitics, Department of Political Science, Panjab University, India and Timothy Doyle, Professor of Politics and International Studies at the University of Adelaide; Distinguished Research Fellow of Indian Ocean Futures at Curtin University; and Chair of Politics and International Relations at Keele University
Contributors: Doyle, Timothy, 1960- author
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
ISBN-13: 9780230249622
Subjects: Climatic changes; Geopolitics; Global warming; POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General; Environmental conditions; World politics; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Globalization; Environmental justice
Description: "Climate Terror investigates the highly differentiated geographical politics of global warming. It explores how fear-inducing climate change discourses could result in new forms of dependencies, domination and militarised 'climate security'. In this revealing study from Doyle and Chaturvedi, the concept of environmental security is brought to life through cases of the most pressing environmental issues confronting the Global South, which are creating desperate realities for billions of people. The book proposes the following key questions, crucial to our understanding of this issue: Can the climate discourse be re-configured to provide a place where issues of environmental justice and sovereignty are paramount, rather than neo-liberal responses to climate? Can climate change give a voice to the global periphery, and can it be used as a vehicle for emancipation?  Doyle and Chaturvedi's study concludes by taking note of the more optimistic response of 'emancipatory' groups and networks to concepts such as climate justice and climate debt, and the ways in which these groups have attempted to use this global climate moment for more democratic purposes. Is the climate story, regardless of its diverse intentions, a discourse now captured by the affluent North to control the development of the Global South? Has the emancipatory moment now passed or is there still hope for the re-emergence of subaltern perspectives on climate futures? The authors further discuss the deployment of terror vocabulary to address climate change, which is a part of refurbished designs and technologies of control, regulation and domination in a neo-liberal, post-political globalised world marked by profound asymmetries in terms of economic growth and human development. They argue for an increased understanding of the environment, not as an external enemy force, but as a diverse nature that is inclusive of people, a nature that has the potential to provide secure access to citizens of all countries to basic nutrition, adequate access to health, appropriate shelter, and a security to practice a diverse range of livelihoods.  "--
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: 1. A Critical Geopolitics of 'Climate Fear/Terror': Roots, Routes and Rhetoric 2. Climate 'Science': Categories, Cultures and Contestations 3. Terrorizing Climate Territories and Marginalized Geographies of the Post-Political 4. The Violence of Climate 'Markets': Insuring 'Our Way of Living' 5. 'Climate Borders' in the Anthropocene: Securitising Displacements, Migration and Refugees 6. Climate Security and Militarization: Geo-Economics and Geo-Securities of Climate Change 7. Climate Justice: An Attempt at an Emancipatory Politics of Climate Change 8. Making 'Climate Futures': Power, Knowledge and Technologies.