Climate Insecurity: Exploring How Environmental Security Discoursed Affect Climate Change Campaigning in the UK

气候变化信息交流已变得越来越复杂，尽管存在与抽象和复杂的科学过程相关的问题（Doyle 2011）。环境非政府组织和社会运动团体在制定气候变化方面发挥着至关重要的作用，努力影响英国的气候和社会政策。这些框架和叙述往往是有争议的，是相互竞争的政策或竞选议程的结果（Schlenbach 2011）。安全性是气候变化的中介和政策话语中的一个关键叙述的基础（Dalby 2002），由国际政府组织，国家行政部门，气候科学家，非政府组织和基层活动家团体等不同的行为者使用。气候变化与安全之间的联系被强调为资源和领土冲突的风险，对国家基础设施和公共安全的威胁，或犯罪和被迫移徙的增加。然而，“安全”本身仍然难以概念化（Neocleous 2008）。这个学生将批判性地研究如何安全话语已经进入并改变了气候变化的沟通和竞选组织在英国的竞选策略，从国际非政府组织到基层活动家团体。与此同时，该项目将批判性地探索和绘制气候变化传播中安全叙述的挑战和局限性，因为环境活动家和抗议者也被视为潜在的安全风险。因此，气候变化“证券化”的一个影响可能是对活动家、社会运动和非政府组织的犯罪化、控制和监视。该研究将利用定性方法，并应用从传播学，犯罪学和社会运动理论得出的理论见解。它将提供气候传播的快速变化的社会政治格局的重要见解，也将考虑气候行动和政策制定的潜在影响。这个博士生奖学金将有助于ESRC的优先领域，解决“有关气候治理，风险和沟通的问题”。该项目横跨社会学、政治学和犯罪学，通过关注气候变化政策对非政府组织气候传播和宣传战略的潜在影响，与UoA 22有着明确的联系。在探索政府和非营利工作之间的关系，在气候变化日益证券化的背景下，它还将反映其对公众参与的潜在影响。

Climate change communication has become increasingly sophisticated, despite the problems associated with representing abstract and complex scientific processes (Doyle 2011). Environmental NGOs and social movement groups play a crucial role in framing climate change, in an effort to influence UK climate and social policy. Frequently these framings and narratives are contested and are outcomes of competing policy or campaigning agendas (Schlembach 2011). Security has underpinned a key narrative in mediated and policy discourses of climate change (Dalby 2002), employed by actors as diverse as international governmental organisations, national administrations, climate scientists, NGOs and grassroots activist groups. The link between climate change and security has been stressed as risks of conflict over resources and territory, threats to national infrastructure and public safety, or increased crime and forced migration. However, "security" itself remains difficult to conceptualise (Neocleous 2008). This studentship will critically examine how security discourses have entered and altered the climate change communication and campaigning strategies of campaigning organisations in the UK, from international NGOs to grassroots activist groups. Simultaneously the project will critically explore and map the challenges and limitations of the security narrative in climate change communication at a time when environmental activists and protesters are also seen as potential security risks. An effect of the 'securitisation' of climate change could therefore be the criminalisation, control and surveillance of activists, social movements and NGOs. The research will utilise qualitative methodologies and apply theoretical insights drawn from communication studies, criminology and social movement theory. It will offer important insights into the rapidly changing socio-political landscape of climate communication and will also consider the potential implications for climate activism and policy-making.This PhD studentship will contribute to the ESRC priority area that addresses 'issues relating to climate governance, risk and communication'. Situated across sociology, politics and criminology, this project has a clear link to UoA 22 through its focus upon the potential impact of climate change policy upon the climate communication and campaigning strategies of NGOs. In exploring the relationship between governmental and not-for-profit work in the context of the increasing securitisation of climate change, it will also reflect upon its potential impacts upon public engagement.