Tag Archives: Securitization

Environment and Patriarchy

Posted on October 3, 2016 by dmadsen@smith.edu

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…”

Posted on October 4, 2016 by hnalwanga@smith.edu

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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Think Piece 2

Posted on September 26, 2016 by Marta Vivanco

I was lucky enough to spend the last year abroad in Copenhagen, and once I finished packing, grabbed my metro card and registered for classes I was given one command: assimilate. Denmark is rather proud if not boisterously so of … Continue reading →

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