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Militarizing the environment :

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1452945578

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1452953562

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9781452945576

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9781452953564

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0816697221

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081669723X

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9780816697229

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9780816697236

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Militarizing the environment :

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[Book]

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climate change and the security state /

First Statement of Responsibility

Robert P. Marzec.

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London :

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University of Minnesota Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

[2015]

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©2015

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1 online resource

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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The sages of the earth and the accidental nature of environmentality -- Inhabitancy, custom law, and the landless : from enclosures to energy security -- Genealogies of military environmentality : the human species as a geological force in the anthropocene -- Military genealogies of environmentality : environmental exceptionalism.

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As the seriousness of climate change becomes more and more obvious, military institutions are responding by taking a prominent role in the governing of environmental concerns, engaging in "climate change war games," and preparing for the effects of climate change--from conflicts due to loss of food, water, and energy to the mass migration of millions of people displaced by rising sea levels. This combat-oriented stance stems from a self-destructive pattern of thought that Robert P. Marzec names "environmentality," an attitude that has been affecting human-environmental relations since the seventeenth century. Militarizing the Environment traces the rise of this influential mindset in America and other nations that threatens to supplant ideas of sustainability with demands for adaptation. In this extensive historical study of scientific, military, political, and economic formations across five centuries, Marzec reveals how environmentality has been instrumental in the development of today's security society--informing the creation of the military-industrial complex during World War II and the National Security Act that established the CIA during the Cold War. Now embedded in contemporary Western thought, environmentality has even infiltrated scientific thinking--transforming Darwinian insights into a quasi-theology that makes security the biological basis of existence. Marzec exposes the self-destructive nature of this increasingly accepted worldview and offers alternatives that counter the blind alleys of national and global security. -- Provided by publisher.

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22573/ctt1954bdk

Title

Militarizing the environment

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9780816697229

Armed Forces-- Environmental aspects.

Environmental degradation.

Global environmental change.

Militarism.

National security-- Environmental aspects.

Nature-- Effect of human beings on.

Armed Forces-- Environmental aspects.

BUSINESS & ECONOMICS-- Infrastructure.

Environmental degradation.

Global environmental change.

Klimatförändringar.

Militarism.

Militarism.

Miljöförstöring.

National security-- Environmental aspects.

Nature-- Effect of human beings on.

POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Security (National & International)

Säkerhetspolitik-- miljöaspekter.

SOCIAL SCIENCE-- General.

Väpnade styrkor-- miljöaspekter.

BUS-- 032000

POL012000

POL044000

SCI075000

SOC-- 000000

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Marzec, Robert P.

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20200822135525.0

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