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Anthropocene Geopolitics Globalization, Security, Sustainability Simon Dalby University of Ottawa Press ANTHROPOCENE GEOPOLITICS ANTHROPOCENE GEOPOLITICS: Globalization, Security, Sustainability Simon Dalby University of Ottawa Press 2020 The University of Ottawa Press (UOP) is proud to be the oldest of the francophone university presses in Canada and the oldest bilingual university publisher in North America. Since 1936, UOP has been “enriching intellectual and cultural discourse” by producing peer-reviewed and award-winning books in the humanities and social sciences, in French or in English. Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Title: Anthropocene geopolitics : globalization, security, sustainability / Simon Dalby, Balsillie School of International Affairs, Wilfrid Laurier University. Names: Dalby, Simon, author. Series: Politics and public policy (University of Ottawa Press) Description: Series statement: Politics and public policy | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: Canadiana (print) 20190238933 | Canadiana (ebook) 2019023895X | ISBN 9780776628899 (softcover) | ISBN 9780776628882 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780776631172 (PDF) | ISBN 9780776631189 (EPUB) | ISBN 9780776631196 (Kindle) Subjects: LCSH: Geopolitics. | LCSH: Boundaries. | LCSH: Globalization. | LCSH: Sustainability. Classification: LCC JC319 .D35 2020 | DDC 320.1/2–dc23 Legal Deposit: First Quarter 2020 Library and Archives Canada © University of Ottawa Press 2020 Printed and bound in Canada Copy editing Robert Ferguson Proofreading Heather Lang Typesetting Counterpunch Inc. Cover design Steve Kress Cover image Oil Fields #1, Belridge, California, USA 2002. photo(s) © Edward Burtynsky, courtesy Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto. The University of Ottawa Press gratefully acknowledges the support extended to its pub- lishing list by the Government of Canada, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences through the Awards to Scholarly Publications Program, and by the University of Ottawa. In memory of Neil Smith, geographer, activist, scholar, friend, and inspiration CONTENTS Acknowledgements ........................................................... ix 1 Geopolitics Revisited ......................................................... 1 2 Scaling up the Human Niche ........................................... 19 3 Planetary Boundaries ........................................................ 33 4 Territory, Security, Mobility ............................................. 55 5 Bordering Sustainability ................................................... 71 6 Securing the Global Economy .......................................... 95 7 Environmental Insecurity .............................................. 115 8 Geopolitics and Globalization ....................................... 131 9 Anthropocene Discourse ................................................ 151 10 Political Geoecology ........................................................ 169 References ......................................................................... 189 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The dedication for this book is to the memory of Neil Smith, a geographer, activist, and scholar whose critiques of the ideology of nature in the 1980s first peaked my intellectual curiosity on the themes that, three decades later, appear throughout this volume. I wish he had lived so that we could have had further discussions of all these themes, but nonetheless here, very belatedly, is acknowledge- ment of my intellectual debt. In working out the arguments in this book I have benefited greatly from the Borders in Globalization partnership grant funded by the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (grant number 895-2012-1022). My thanks to Emmanuel Brunet- Jailly, the director of the program; Victor Konrad, the associate director; and Nicole Bates-Eamer, the ever efficient administrator who coordinated our various diverse investigations of contempo- rary bordering practices. The Research Council has provided support to fund graduate student assistants who have helped in assembling the material that has gone into this volume. Thanks in particular to Alex Szaflarska, Derek Orocz, Masaya Llavaneras-Blanco, Clay DaSilva, Rupinder Mangat, and Alex Suen, graduate students at Wilfrid Laurier, and at the University of Waterloo for much useful research assistance in assiduously tracking down key sources in diverse scholarly literatures and, in Alex Suen’s case, helping compile the bibliography and index. ix

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