Geopolitics of climate change and Australia's 'Re-engagement' with Asia: Discourses of fear and cartographic anxieties

dc.contributor.authorChaturvedi, S.
dc.contributor.authorDoyle, T.
dc.date.issued2010
dc.description.abstractDrawing theoretical insights offered by the Copenhagen School, in conjunction with a critical assessment of environmental security, the intention of this paper is to examine the ways in which Australia's 're-engagement with Asia' is getting increasingly securitized through both speech acts and practices relating to climate change and energy security. These acts and practices are dictated and driven by the state-centric 'national security' discourses on the one hand, and by the geo-economic imperatives of fossil fuel-driven models of economic growth and energy security on the other hand. The key question, in our view, then becomes: What are the actual or potential linkages (and contradictions) between Australia's self-image as an energy superpower, alongside its increasingly embraced normative role as a responsible international (and even Asian) citizen committed to effectively mitigating climate change?
dc.description.statementofresponsibilitySanjay Chaturvedi and Timothy Doyle
dc.identifier.citationAustralian Journal of Political Science, 2010; 45(1):95-115
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/10361140903517734
dc.identifier.issn1036-1146
dc.identifier.issn1742-9536
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2440/61333
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherCarfax Publishing
dc.rights© 2010 Australian Political Studies Association
dc.source.urihttps://doi.org/10.1080/10361140903517734
dc.titleGeopolitics of climate change and Australia's 'Re-engagement' with Asia: Discourses of fear and cartographic anxieties
dc.typeJournal article
pubs.publication-statusPublished

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