Tag Archives: Global South

Cameroonian Sustainable Development

During my study abroad experience last Spring, I felt as though I had an unfortunate opportunity to glimpse the negative effects of unsustainable development in Cameroon. Many of Upreti’s points about unsustainable development echo the North/South (or West/East) inequality discourses … Continue reading

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Challenging and Reframing the Security Discourse

The central idea behind this week’s readings is the reframing of security discourse, including that of environmental security and ecological security. In Environmental Security, Pirages suggests that we must reframe the security paradigm in order to take into account environmental … Continue reading

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Environment and Patriarchy

The fundamental characteristic of patriarchy as a power structure is exclusion, as gender, ethnic, and class distinctions define what we have a right to as people. This is extremely relevant to this weeks’ readings which all underline an essential question … Continue reading

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On “the ill-informed logic of some forty-year-old aid project…”

The atrocities Parenti describes in part 2 and 3 of his book offer a broader understanding of Dennis C. Pirages’ argument concerning security and the relevance of expanding the security framework to include environmental threats. Reading Parenti was pretty depressing … Continue reading

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Thinkpiece #2

Who are the major players in climate change? Which countries feel the worst pressure of rising temperatures and who should carry the burden of fixing the problem? These questions have proven to be almost impossible to answer, and the authors … Continue reading

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Think piece #2 – Ecology, Peace-building and Human Security

The readings for this week call for a cooperative and collaborative approach to ensure the human security of the world’s population and environmental security of the planet in the face of climate change. All of the authors in this week’s … Continue reading

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