TY - JOUR
T1 - ‘Climatizing’ military strategy? A case study of the Indian armed forces
AU - Jayaram, Dhanasree
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgements Open access funding provided by Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal. The paper is carved out of the author’s PhD thesis, titled ‘Military Dimensions of Environmental Security: An Indian Perspective’ (awarded in 2018), supervised by Nanda Kishor M. S., Associate Professor, Department of Geopolitics and International Relations, Manipal Academy of Higher Education (deemed-to-be University) (MAHE). The PhD study was facilitated by MAHE’s Dr TMA Pai Scholarship. The paper was further strengthened during the author’s postdoctoral stint at the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, University of Lausanne, under the Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship (2018–19). The author would like to thank Lucile Maertens (Lecturer, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, University of Lausanne, Switzerland), Stefan Aykut, (Junior Professor, Fakultät WISO, Universität Hamburg, Germany) and Adrien Estève (PhD student, Center for International Studies and Research, Sciences Po, France) for their valuable comments on the initial drafts of this paper. The author would also like to
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PY - 2021/8
Y1 - 2021/8
N2 - Climate change is increasingly shaping security narratives, including military strategy. While considering climate change a security issue, the military’s role in this discourse and praxis becomes critical as a security actor. However, the interrelationships between climate change, security and the military are conceived and approached by different states diversely. Within different states, this triangular relationship is guided by processes with varied practical/policy implications. While ‘securitization’ has generally been used to explain climate security, other processes such as ‘climatization’ have assumed significance, wherein security practices are climatized. The Indian military too has been engaging with security implications of climate change, but by using approaches distinct from Western states, which have been the usual focus in such analyses. In this paper, the framework of climatization is used to analyse the triangular relationship, using the case study of the Indian military—by categorizing climatizing moves as symbolic, strategic, precautionary and transformative.
AB - Climate change is increasingly shaping security narratives, including military strategy. While considering climate change a security issue, the military’s role in this discourse and praxis becomes critical as a security actor. However, the interrelationships between climate change, security and the military are conceived and approached by different states diversely. Within different states, this triangular relationship is guided by processes with varied practical/policy implications. While ‘securitization’ has generally been used to explain climate security, other processes such as ‘climatization’ have assumed significance, wherein security practices are climatized. The Indian military too has been engaging with security implications of climate change, but by using approaches distinct from Western states, which have been the usual focus in such analyses. In this paper, the framework of climatization is used to analyse the triangular relationship, using the case study of the Indian military—by categorizing climatizing moves as symbolic, strategic, precautionary and transformative.
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U2 - 10.1057/s41311-020-00247-3
DO - 10.1057/s41311-020-00247-3
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85085556555
SN - 1384-5748
VL - 58
SP - 619
EP - 639
JO - International Politics
JF - International Politics
IS - 4
ER -
