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Category Archives: Ecological Security and Feminist Environmental Security – Week 3
Disequilibrium
The two chapters, Ecological Security and Gender and Environmental Security, both carried an emphasis on the significance of human relationships and natural ecosystems. Interestingly, each author’s analysis of these relationships observed them from different lenses. The Detraz chapter stated that … Continue reading
We May Never Achieve Peace and Order: How Traditional Security Frameworks Fail Individuals
This week, I was particularly struck by a quote from Jawaharlal Nehru in Part III of Parenti’s Tropic of Chaos: “The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.” (Parenti, 133) This summarizes … Continue reading
The interdisciplinary aspect of environmental security
Reading the chapter 7 and 8 really made me realize the multiplicity of subjects and areas that environmental security can deal with. It is a whole complex topic that needs to be treated through a variety of disciplines, each of … Continue reading
Ecological Security and Gender
Our first class period focused greatly around the definition of security, and over the past few weeks the authors we’ve explored have offered their meaning of environmental security and the cause for its state, ranging from the lack of resources, … Continue reading
Climate Change, Gender and Ecology
When I looked at the syllabus, this week’s topic, Ecological Security and Feminist Environmental Security, drew my attention. I wondered how these two could be absorbed into the environmental security field, particularly the relation between feminism and security. Pirages analyzes … Continue reading
Personhood in Environmental Security
The chapters this week in F&M addressed environmental security primarily at the level of individuals (both humans and other organisms) and their relationships with one another. The two chapters took a stance against the state centered view of security through … Continue reading
The Future of Resource Conflict
While Parenti, for this week’s readings, predominately discussed the history of East African and Asian conflict in the shadow of climate change, all I could think of was the future of environmental security. For years, people–politicians and general public alike–have … Continue reading
Health Epidemics and The Environment
This week’s reading largely consists of reframing security to include ecological security and gendered language to truly maintain human security. In order for people to be secure people do not need to just be secured from external threats but also … Continue reading
Not your Earth Mama: Ecological security and the gender-minority myth
A quick skim through the syllabus and my eyes went directly to this week’s topic “Ecological Security and Feminist Environmental Security” as issues of gender have always been consciously tied to those of the earth and environment, I was interested … Continue reading
History and Stories in Environmental Security
The Parenti readings for this week showed the importance of history and seemingly-unrelated topics in Environmental Security. In discussing global climate change effects in Africa, much of Part II goes into surprising detail about Kenyan colonial history.In these chapters, while … Continue reading