Description
How should UK policymakers conceptualise and operationalise ‘security’? There is some evidence in recent iterations of the UK Government’s security strategy that UK policymakers are broadening and widening their understanding of security. There is even evidence of some of the insights of feminist security scholarship infiltrating policymakers’ thinking. But what kind of feminism makes it into UK Government policy? And to what effect? This paper takes as its starting point the fact that we are in a particular historical moment of intensifying ecological crises, and that the need for governments to radically transform their approach to security in line with the insights of ecofeminists could not be more urgent. It explores the extent to which the UK Government has grasped the nature of this requirement, in policy and practice, and the implications of its approach for the realization of security for people and planet.
