BISA 2022 Conference (face-to-face)

Identity, Security, Climate and the Nation

16 Jun 2022, 15:00

1h 30m

Swan, Civic Centre

International Studies of the Mediterranean, Middle East & Asia Working Group

Description

This panel discusses challenges of governance, decentralisation, identity and exclusion and how this also might impact on climate strategies in countries of the Middle East and Asia. It explores gendered security narratives, the rise of far right groups and geopolitical developments including on economic and energy relations in the region.

Subcontributions

• From racial to political boundaries: Neto uyo and the exclusionary performance of Japanese identity
• Dragonfire: Chinese natural gas relations in Central Asia
• Understanding authoritarian decentralisation and its effects: the case of Kazakhstan
• Jordan’s Climate Change Official Discourse: communicating local vulnerabilities within political restrictions
• Feminine Fighters of Justice? Gendered Narratives of the Japan Self-Defense Forces and their Impact on Japanese Security Policy