Climate governance and global power: environmental securitization as a device for geopolitical subordination of the Global South.

Abstract

The research examined climate governance and environmental securitization as political forms of ecological imperialism. Drawing on a critique of political economy and critical geopolitics, the instrumental technologization of climate governance was characterized, and the mechanisms of geopolitical control in the Global South were categorized. It was demonstrated that the technopoliticization of the environmental crisis and its subsequent repoliticization established economic dominance based on environmental services and carbon markets. Environmental securitization and climate governance are redefined as mechanisms of dispossession and geopolitical subordination. It was concluded that climate governance serves as a device for geopolitical control of strategic natural and demographic resources, in contrast to sovereign frameworks of territorial justice.