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Tag Archives: Parenti
Population, Development and Environmental Security
Both authors agree on one significant fact: environmental security is a matter of human security. Human security is “relevant for national security, as without the security of individuals and the environment they live in, the state itself is insecure,” (207). … Continue reading
Posted in Demography and Development -- Week 6
Tagged MDGs, Demography, social learning, Upreti, Sciubba, drought, Somalia, human security, Parenti
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Population, Development, and Ecological Civilization in China
Much of what was said by both Sciubba et al. and Upreti relate to my own research on environmental challenges in China. While Sciubba explains the different consequences that the intercourse between demographic fluctuations and different types of political regimes … Continue reading
Posted in Demography and Development -- Week 6
Tagged pollution, urbanization, civil unrest, women's security, air, democratization, youth bulges, China, democracy, Upreti, Sciubba, population, demographic pressure, resource management, decentralization, ecological civilization, indigenous population, local knowledge, sustainable development, ecological justice, feminism, Parenti, water
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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
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
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
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
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
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
Think 2
The chapters and segments for this week’s reading assignment almost all described preparatory and contingency plans regarding global climate change. The military, think tanks, corporations, and governments have been creating these plans for impending doom that have failed to set … Continue reading
Posted in Peacebuilding and Human Security - Week 2
Tagged Buxton & Hayes, Maas, Parenti, Watts
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