Between Family and Foreign Policy: A Gendered Approach to Understanding the Impact of Foreign Policy Failure on Human Security in the SIDS of the Caribbean

Young, Simone

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“…In addressing this lacuna, this paper illustrates the contribution that documenting SIDS environmental knowledge practices can make in advancing disaster risk reduction, human security governance and climate justice, by exemplifying what we can productively learn from the territory of the Caribbean. In the same vein, our discussion of empirical evidence of replicable and scalable partnerships in community-based securitization for creating resilience to climate change in the Caribbean is aligned with a growing body of literature highlighting the importance of "hearing local voices" from SIDS (Kelman, 2010, p. 605), and expanding understanding of human security to encompass climate justice and human rights of access to health, livelihoods and education, as well as participation in governance (Robinson and Shine, 2017;Scobie, 2019;Young, 2019). In the following sections, we look at Cuba and the…”

Section: The Caribbean: a Case For Resilience And Climate Justicementioning

confidence: 88%

Subaltern learnings: climate resilience and human security in the Caribbean

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Morrissey

2020

Territory, Politics, Governance

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The UN's invocation of "human security" a generation ago promised a world increasingly governed by a "people-centred" security agenda (UNDP, 1994, p. iii). In this paper, we focus on arguably the most vital global security challenge faced throughout the planet today: climate resilience. We outline how advancing smart climate action and securing climate resilience can be aided by securitization practices that recall the earlier emphases of the UN's human security concept. The paper draws upon evidence from the Caribbean as a territory defined dominantly as part of the Global South yet offering vital knowledges of productive climate security governance that can be instructive to the Global North. The impacts of global warming are particularly evident for the people of Small Island Developing States such as those located in the Caribbean (IPCC, 2018). By analysing the case of Cuba as a country increasingly resilient to extreme weather events, and by interrogating the genealogy of the broader Caribbean's hurricane culture, we show how an effective human security vision for climate justice and resilience can be achieved by recognising and integrating the valuable forms of locally-attuned knowledge that continue to emerge and coalesce in vulnerable geographies.

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Section: The Caribbean: a Case For Resilience And Climate Justicementioning

confidence: 88%