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Identity Politics and Chinese Climate Securitisation
Authors: Vuori, Juha A.
Editors: Karackattu, Joe Thomas; Joseph, Justin; Reghunadhan, Ramnath
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer Nature Singapore
Publication year: 2025
Book title : Environmental Securitisation in India and China
Journal name in source: Environmental Securitisation in India and China
First page : 97
Last page: 113
ISBN: 978-981-97-9159-0
eISBN: 978-981-97-9160-6
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-9160-6_6
Web address : https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-9160-6_6
Abstract
This chapter analyses the Chinese discourse on global climate change and relates it to the PRC's identity politics. As such, the issue of climate change in security studies has evolved from debates about environmental security. The paper relates the PRC's macropoliticisation of climate change to its longer-view approach to the treatment and role of the environment in China. This shows how environmental concerns have raised high on the discursive political agenda, yet how climate change is regarded more as an issue of international politics than national security in the PRC. This evolution becomes understandable when viewed in terms of identity politics.
This chapter analyses the Chinese discourse on global climate change and relates it to the PRC's identity politics. As such, the issue of climate change in security studies has evolved from debates about environmental security. The paper relates the PRC's macropoliticisation of climate change to its longer-view approach to the treatment and role of the environment in China. This shows how environmental concerns have raised high on the discursive political agenda, yet how climate change is regarded more as an issue of international politics than national security in the PRC. This evolution becomes understandable when viewed in terms of identity politics.
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