Militarizing the Environment: Climate Change and the Security State
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Militarizing the Environment: Climate Change and the Security State
By (Author) Robert P. Marzec
University of Minnesota Press
University of Minnesota Press
1st March 2016
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Impact of science and technology on society
Environmental policy and protocols
363.73874
Physical Properties
Paperback
320
Width 140mm, Height 216mm, Spine 38mm
Description
In this extensive historical study of scientific, military, political, and economic formations across five centuries, Robert P. Marzec reveals how environmentality has been instrumental in the development of today's security societyinforming the creation of the military-industrial complex during World War II and the National Security Act that established the CIA during the Cold War.
Reviews
Militarizing the Environment: Climate Change and the Security State offers an illuminating, perturbing account of the greening of military discourse and strategy amidst an era of advancing climate change. Robert P. Marzec brilliantly details the neoliberal assaultat once militaristic, economic and discursiveon the commons and its most vulnerable inhabitants. His book is essential reading for anyone committed to understanding the new imperialism and its cynical, sinister appropriation of critical environmental ideas like resilience, adaptation, and sustainability.
Rob Nixon, author of Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor
Author Bio
Robert P. Marzec is associate professor of ecocriticism and postcolonialism in the department of English at Purdue University and associate editor of MFS: Modern Fiction Studies. He is the author of An Ecological and Postcolonial Study of Literature and the editor of Postcolonial Literary Studies: The First 30 Years.
