Date and time: Wednesday 5 October 2022; 13:15-15:00 (UTC+2)

Teacher: Florian Kühn

Location: Room 302 (Annedalseminariet)

Slides Non-Anthropocentric Security 05102022.pdf

Security has mostly - by many different theories - been discussed with the state, and humans, as indispensable reference. This lecture asks what a conception of security might look like which takes humans AND other beings as entagled in a web of relations which determine their security. We will look at different ways of understanding security which do not ignore environmental aspects of security, such as loss of life by climate change, or the loss of home by flood or deteriorating soil and water quality, as well as associated changes in identity induced by loss of landscape/environement/ways of being. Finally, we will discuss if a non-anthropocentric concept of security, devised by humans, is at all possible - doesn't security, one way or the other, directly or indirectly, always relate to human survival???

Mandatory reading: Delf Rothe: Governing the End Times? Planet Politics and the Secular Eschatology of
the Anthropocene. Millennium: Journal of International Studies 2020, Vol. 48(2) 143–164. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0305829819889138