GEOG 329 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Geopolitics, Human Security, Securitization
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Engagement with security (differing scales and conceptions of security, situating geopolitical concepts and knowledge --> tries to be critical) Securitization: when you transform an issue into a security issue --> this causes more power and could be used to suspend riots as it is legitimized. Subversion of dominant geopolitical narratives focused on "state security" Develop politics of security at the scale of the individual (the civilian) --> in a sense, it links with human security. Going into the field to navigate the issue (trying to go to the small scale) but also in the trans-scale (what does the large-scale practice of this translate to everyday life?) E. g. geopolitics of mobility --> rather than thinking of capital movement, you can analyze the movement of labor, travelling war zones and immigration (such as the case of. Civil war in sri lanka --> considered an example of a feminine migration.
