Time: 18:00 - 19:30
Venue:  OSCE Academy in Bishkek, 1A, Botanichesky pereulok, Conference Hall, 3rd floor
Lecturer: Professor Alan Collins, University of Swansea, UK
Registration link: here
Language: English

Description

Catastrophic climate change is creating extreme weather conditions globally – from floods to wildfires – and with temperatures set to continue rising there is the prospect of parts of the planet becoming uninhabitable. This suggests strongly that catastrophic climate change represents a security threat to humanity and the planet’s other species, but does conceiving of it as a security threat help or hinder responding to global warming? The discourses adopted about environmental degradation prioritise different referents to secure, and this can lead to a focus on the symptoms of climate change rather than the causes. By thinking about what is threatened by climate change and how discourses determine what is possible, a solution emerges within a new turn in security studies; the discourse of nonhuman security and the referent of ecological security.

BIO

Professor Alan Collins, Department of Politics, Philosophy, and International Relations, Swansea University, UK. Collins is an expert on Southeast Asian security. He is the author of four single-authored books, has published numerous articles, including in Review of International Studies, Cooperation & Conflict, and International Relations, and is the editor of Contemporary Security Studies, a leading security textbook published by Oxford University Press with its 7th edition coming soon.