PIED5580M
Module Reading List
Professor Olaf Corry
t.o.corry@leeds.ac.uk
Tutor information is taken from the Module Catalogue
Week 1
Corry, O. 2017 ‘The “Nature” of International Relations: From Geopolitics to the Anthropocene’. In Eroukhmanoff, Clara, and Matt Harker (eds). Reflections on the posthuman in international relations: the anthropocene, security and ecology. E-International Relations Publishing. Free ebook https://www.e-ir.info/2017/10/15/the-nature-of-international-relations-from-geopolitics-to-the-anthropocene/
Kaplan, Robert, 1994. The Coming Anarchy. Atl. Mon. 273, 44–76. Available Online Here
Deudney, Daniel. 1990. ‘The Case Against Linking Environmental Degradation and National Security’. Millennium 19(3): 461–76.
Further reading:
Homer-Dixon, Thomas et al. 2015. ‘Synchronous Failure: The Emerging Causal Architecture of Global Crisis’. Ecology and Society 20(3). https://www.jstor.org/stable/26270255.
Trombetta, M. J. (2021). Security in the Anthropocene. In D. Chandler, F. Müller, & D. Rothe (Eds.), International Relations in the Anthropocene: New Agendas, New Agencies and New Approaches (pp. 155–172). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53014-3_9
Malthus, Thomas Robert. An Essay on the Principle of Population.. 1872.
Week 2:
Andersen, N. Å. (2003). Chapter 1: Introduction. In Andersen Discursive analytical strategies: Understanding Foucault, Koselleck, Laclau, Luhmann. Briston: Policy Press.
Heymann, M. (2010). The evolution of climate ideas and knowledge. WIREs Climate Change, 1(4), 581–597. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.61
Wæver, O. (2008). Peace and Security: Two Evolving Concepts and Their Changing Relationship (H. G. Brauch, Ú. O. Spring, C. Mesjasz, J. Grin, P. Dunay, N. C. Behera, B. Chourou, P. Kameri-Mbote, & P. H. Liotta, Eds.; Vol. 3, pp. 99–111). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-75977-5_4
Further reading:
Berling, T. V., Gad, U. P., Petersen, K. L., & Wæver, O. (2021). ‘Introduction: translations of security’’ pp.-1- 26. In Berling et al. (eds) Translations of Security: A Framework for the Study of Unwanted Futures. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003175247 [You can skip section 1.3 unless you want to jump ahead and get into securitization theory already].
Daniels, S., & Endfield, G. H. (2009). Narratives of climate change: Introduction. Journal of Historical Geography, 35(2), 215–222. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2008.09.005
Hulme, M. (2008). The conquering of climate: Discourses of fear and their dissolution. The Geographical Journal, 174(1), 5–16. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-4959.2008.00266.x
Freeden, M. (1997). Ideologies and conceptual history. Journal of Political Ideologies, 2(1), 3–11. https://doi.org/10.1080/13569319708420747
Ifversen, Jan. (2011). About Key Concepts and How to Study Them. Contributions to the History of Concepts, 6(1), 65–88.
Methmann, C., Rothe, D., & Stephan, B. (2013). Introduction: How and why to deconstruct the greenhouse. In Interpretive Approaches to Global Climate Governance. Routledge.
WEEK 3:
McDonald, M. (2013). Discourses of climate security. Political Geography, 33, 42–51. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2013.01.002
Waever, O. (1995). Securitization and Desecuritization. In R. D. Lipschutz (Ed.), On Security (Vol. 66, pp. 46–86). Columbia University Press. Available as an Online Course Reading in Minerva
Further reading:
Buzan, B, Waever, O & de Wilde, J (1998) Security: A New Framework for Analysis. Boulder / London: Lynne Rienner.
Cohn, Carol, and Claire Duncanson. 2020. ‘Women, Peace and Security in a Changing Climate’. International Feminist Journal of Politics 22(5): 742–62.
Dalby, S. (2014). Rethinking Geopolitics: Climate Security in the Anthropocene. Global Policy, 5(1), 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.12074
Gills, B., & Morgan, J. (2020). Global Climate Emergency: After COP24, climate science, urgency, and the threat to humanity. Globalizations, 17(6), 885–902. https://doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2019.1669915
Schäfer, M. S., Scheffran, J., & Penniket, L. (2016). Securitization of media reporting on climate change? A cross-national analysis in nine countries. Security Dialogue, 47(1), 76-96.
WEEK 4
Campbell, K. M. (2008). Climatic Cataclysm: The Foreign Policy and National Security Implications of Climate Change. Brookings Institution Press. http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/cam/detail.action?docID=472714
Colgan, J. (2021) ‘Climate Change, Grand Strategy, and International Order | Wilson Center’. https://diplomacy21-adelphi.wilsoncenter.org/article/climate-change-grand-strategy-and-international-order (January 12, 2022).
EESI (2017) The National Security Impacts of Climate Change. Issue brief. https://www.eesi.org/files/IssueBrief_Climate_Change_Security_Implications.pdf
Belcher, O., Bigger, P., Neimark, B., & Kennelly, C. (2020). Hidden carbon costs of the “everywhere war”: Logistics, geopolitical ecology, and the carbon boot-print of the US military. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 45(1), 65–80. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12319
Colgan, Jeff D. 2018. ‘Climate Change and the Politics of Military Bases’. Global Environmental Politics 18(1): 33–51.
Warren, Team. 2019. ‘Our Military Can Help Lead the Fight in Combating Climate Change’. Medium. https://medium.com/@teamwarren/our-military-can-help-lead-the-fight-in-combating-climate-change-2955003555a3 (January 13, 2022).
WEEK 5
Selby, J., Dahi, O. S., Fröhlich, C., & Hulme, M. (2017). Climate change and the Syrian civil war revisited. Political Geography, 60, 232–244. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2017.05.007
Hartmann, B. (2010). Rethinking climate refugees and climate conflict: Rhetoric, reality and the politics of policy discourse. Journal of International Development: The Journal of the Development Studies Association, 22(2), 233-246.
Maertens, L. (2021). Climatizing the UN Security Council. International Politics, 58(4), 640–660. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41311-021-00281-9
Further reading:
Bettini, G. (2013). Climate Barbarians at the Gate? A critique of apocalyptic narratives on ‘climate refugees’. Geoforum, 45, 63–72. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2012.09.009
Boas, I., & Rothe, D. (2016). From conflict to resilience? Explaining recent changes in climate security discourse and practice. Environmental Politics, 25(4), 613–632. https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2016.1160479
Brzoska, M., & Fröhlich, C. (2016). Climate change, migration and violent conflict: Vulnerabilities, pathways and adaptation strategies. Migration and Development, 5(2), 190–210. https://doi.org/10.1080/21632324.2015.1022973
Burke, M., Hsiang, S. M., & Miguel, E. (2015). Climate and Conflict. Annual Review of Economics, 7(1), 577–617. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-economics-080614-115430
Hardt, J. N. (2021). The United Nations Security Council at the Forefront of (Climate) Change? Confusion, Stalemate, Ignorance. Politics and Governance, 9(4), 5–15. https://doi.org/10.17645/pag.v9i4.4573
Kelley, Colin P. et al. 2015. ‘Climate Change in the Fertile Crescent and Implications of the Recent Syrian Drought’. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112(11): 3241–46.
Mayer, M. (2012). Chaotic Climate Change and Security. International Political Sociology, 6(2), 165–185. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-5687.2012.00157.x
Selby, J. (2014). Positivist Climate Conflict Research: A Critique. Geopolitics, 19(4), 829–856. https://doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2014.964865
WEEK 6
Tickell, C. (2010). Earth Systems Science: Are We Pushing Gaia Too Hard? http://www2.le.ac.uk/ebulletin/features/2000-2009/2006/11/nparticle.2006-11-20.9623961254
Burke, A., Fishel, S., Mitchell, A., Dalby, S., & Levine, D. J. (2016). Planet Politics: A Manifesto from the End of IR. Millennium, 44(3), 499–523. https://doi.org/10.1177/0305829816636674
Chandler, D., Cudworth, E., & Hobden, S. (2018). Anthropocene, Capitalocene and Liberal Cosmopolitan IR: A Response to Burke et al.’s ‘Planet Politics’. Millennium, 46(2), 190–208. https://doi.org/10.1177/0305829817715247
Further reading:
Corry, O. (2020). Concluding Discussion: The Planetary Is Not the End of the International. In Non-Human Nature in World Politics (pp. 337-352). Springer, Cham.
Corry, O. (2020). Nature and the international: Towards a materialist understanding of societal multiplicity. Globalizations, 17(3), 419–435. https://doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2019.1676587
Grove, Jairus Victor. 2017. ‘The Geopolitics of Extinction: From the Anthropocene to the Eurocene’. In D. McCarthy (Ed.) Technology and World Politics, London: Routledge.
Hamilton, Clive. Earthmasters: the dawn of the age of climate engineering. Yale University Press, 2013
Luke, T. W. (1995). On Environmentality: Geo-Power and Eco-Knowledge in the Discourses of Contemporary Environmentalism. Cultural Critique, 31, 57–81. https://doi.org/10.2307/1354445
McDonald, Matt. "Climate change and security: towards ecological security?." International Theory 10, no. 2 (2018): 153-180.
Harrington, C. (2021). Caring for the World: Security in the Anthropocene. In D. Chandler, F. Müller, & D. Rothe (Eds.), International Relations in the Anthropocene: New Agendas, New Agencies and New Approaches (pp. 209–226). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53014-3_12
Salih, R., & Corry, O. (2021). Displacing the Anthropocene: Colonisation, extinction and the unruliness of nature in Palestine. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 2514848620982834. https://doi.org/10.1177/2514848620982834
Scott, J. (1999). Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (Revised ed. edition). Yale University Press.
Trombetta, M. J. (2021). Security in the Anthropocene. In D. Chandler, F. Müller, & D. Rothe (Eds.), International Relations in the Anthropocene: New Agendas, New Agencies and New Approaches (pp. 155–172). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53014-3_9
WEEK 7
Wroe, Ann. The Economist Style Guide. Profile Books, 2018. (Introduction is useful but the whole book is good to use as reference source)
Have a look around Climate Outreach resources website, e.g.:
https://climateoutreach.org/reports/ipcc-communications-handbook/
Examples of blogs/op-eds:
https://thediplomat.com/2013/03/a-clear-and-present-danger/
WEEK 8
Corry, O. (2017). The international politics of geoengineering: The feasibility of Plan B for tackling climate change. Security Dialogue, 48(4). https://doi.org/10.1177/0967010617704142
Markusson, N., Ginn, F., Ghaleigh, N., & Scott, V. (2014). ‘In case of emergency press here’: Framing geoengineering as a response to dangerous climate change. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, 5. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.263
Keith, D. W., & Irvine, P. J. (2016). Solar geoengineering could substantially reduce climate risks—A research hypothesis for the next decade. Earth’s Future, 4(11), 549–559. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016EF000465
Further reading
Cairns, R. (2016). Climates of suspicion: ‘Chemtrail’ conspiracy narratives and the international politics of geoengineering. The Geographical Journal, 182(1), 70–84. https://doi.org/10.1111/geoj.12116
Corry, O. &, Kornbech, N. (2021). Geoengineering: A New Arena of International Politics. https://www.springerprofessional.de/en/geoengineering-a-new-arena-of-international-politics/19087456
Nightingale, P., & Cairns, R. (n.d.). ‘The Security Implications of Geoengineering: Blame, Imposed Agreement and the Security of Critical Infrastructure’. Sussex University: Climate Geoengineering Governance Working Paper Series, 18. Available Online Here
Surprise, K., & Sapinski, J. P. (2021). Whose climate intervention? Solar geoengineering, fractions of capital, and hegemonic strategy. SocArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/ebwqn
Tang, Aaron, and Luke Kemp. 2021. ‘A Fate Worse Than Warming? Stratospheric Aerosol Injection and Global Catastrophic Risk’. Frontiers in Climate 3: 144.
WEEK 9:
Wainwright, J., & Mann, G. (2013). Climate Leviathan. Antipode, 45(1), 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8330.2012.01018.x
Dunlap, A., & Fairhead, J. (2014). The Militarisation and Marketisation of Nature: An Alternative Lens to ‘Climate-Conflict’. Geopolitics, 19(4), 937–961. https://doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2014.964864
Surprise, K. (2020). Geopolitical ecology of solar geoengineering: From a ‘logic of multilateralism’ to logics of militarization. Journal of Political Ecology, 27(1), Article 1. https://doi.org/10.2458/v27i1.23583
Willis, Rebecca, Nicole Curato, and Graham Smith (2021) ‘Deliberative Democracy and the Climate Crisis’. WIREs Climate Change n/a(n/a): e759.
Further reading:
Malm, A. (2021). White Skin, Black Fuel: On the Danger of Fossil Fascism. London: Verso Books. (Introduction chapter).
Horton, Joshua B. et al. 2018. ‘Solar Geoengineering and Democracy’. Global Environmental Politics 18(3): 5–24.
Luke, T. W. (1995). On Environmentality: Geo-Power and Eco-Knowledge in the Discourses of Contemporary Environmentalism. Cultural Critique, 31, 57–81. https://doi.org/10.2307/1354445
Mittiga, R. (2021). Political Legitimacy, Authoritarianism, and Climate Change. American Political Science Review, 1-14.
Szerszynski, Bronislaw et al. 2013. ‘Why Solar Radiation Management Geoengineering and Democracy Won’t Mix’. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 45(12): 2809–16.
WEEK 10
Malm, A. (2020, October 14). The Climate Movement Must Disrupt the Normal Routines of Fossil Capital. Jacobin. https://jacobinmag.com/2020/10/ende-gelande-climate-justice-movement-nonviolence (this is an extract from the book Malm, A. (2021). How to Blow Up a Pipeline: Learning to Fight in a World on Fire. London: Verso Books).
Berglund, O., & Schmidt, D. (2020). Extinction Rebellion and Climate Change Activism: Breaking the Law to Change the World (1st ed. 2020 edition). Palgrave Macmillan.
Corry, O., & Reiner, D. (2021). Protests and Policies: How Radical Social Movement Activists Engage with Climate Policy Dilemmas. Sociology, 55(1), 197–217. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038520943107
Further readings:
Kinniburgh, C. (2020). Can Extinction Rebellion Survive? Dissent, 67(1), 125–133. https://doi.org/10.1353/dss.2020.0007
Albert, M. J. (2020). Beyond continuationism: Climate change, economic growth, and the future of world (dis)order. Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 0(0), 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/09557571.2020.1825334
WEEK 11
Beard, S. J., and Phil Torres. 2020. Ripples on the Great Sea of Life: A Brief History of Existential Risk Studies. Rochester, NY: Social Science Research Network. SSRN Scholarly Paper.
Beard, S.J. et al. 2021. ‘Assessing Climate Change’s Contribution to Global Catastrophic Risk’. Futures 127: 102673.
Homer-Dixon, Thomas et al. 2015. ‘Synchronous Failure: The Emerging Causal Architecture of Global Crisis’. Ecology and Society 20(3). https://www.jstor.org/stable/26270255.
Further reading:
Bendell, Jem. 2018. 2 Deep Adaptation: A Map for Navigating Climate Tragedy. Ambleside, UK: University of Cumbria. Report. http://www.lifeworth.com/deepadaptation.pdf (January 14, 2022).
Chakrabarty, D. (2015). The human condition in the Anthropocene. The Tanner Lectures in Human Values, 18-19. Available Online Here
Hamilton, C. (2010). Requiem for a Species: Why We Resist the Truth about Climate Change. London: Earthscan.
Mitchell, Audra. 2016. ‘Is IR Going Extinct?’ European Journal of International Relations 23(1): 3–25.
Paterson, M. (2021). Climate change and international political economy: Between collapse and transformation. Review of International Political Economy, 28(2), 394–405. https://doi.org/10.1080/09692290.2020.1830829
Tang, Aaron, and Luke Kemp. 2021. ‘A Fate Worse Than Warming? Stratospheric Aerosol Injection and Global Catastrophic Risk’. Frontiers in Climate 3: 144.
This list was last updated on 23/01/2022