The presentation introduces the concept of ‘Arctic closures’ as both a counter-narrative and analytical lens through which to understand not only how global warming discursively and materially opens up the Artic by improving the exploitability of critical resources, but rather how it produces various intersecting processes of territorialization and shrinking spaces. Focusing on current security-related developments in Artic Canada and Norther Norway it further demonstrates how the intersection of climate change and so-called hybrid threats in the context of the Russian invasion of Ukraine has given rise to new micropolitical forms of “militarized climate security”, characterized by the merging of civil and military realms and the growing entanglement of military actions with global environmental change.
Der Vortrag von Prof. Dr. Benno Fladvad (Universität Hamburg) findet auf Englisch statt und wird vom Institut für Geographie organisiert.
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