1st Edition

India’s Climate Change Policy and the Securitisation of Development Security and Justice in Transition

By Anjan Kumar Sahu Copyright 2027
208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

This important volume uses securitisation theory to critically evaluate India’s climate change policy, scrutinising the normative and non-normative features of the theory and suggesting the introduction of open impartiality as a corrective lens to address the theory’s ethical deficits. The book demonstrates India’s understanding of climate change as a threat to the economic development of the... Read more

1.     Introduction

2.     Securitisation and justice: Theoretical underpinnings

3.     India’s climate change policy and normative securitisation of development: International and national dimensions

4.     India’s climate change policy and non-normative securitisation of development: International and national dimensions

5.     Securitisation, justice and enhanced securitisation: Development and climate change in India

6.     Conclusion

Biography

Anjan Kumar Sahu is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science, University of Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India. He received his MA from Utkal University, Odisha; MPhil from South Asian Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi; and PhD from the Department of Political Science, University of Delhi, Delhi, India. His research mainly focuses on climate change and security studies, especially the theory of securitisation. His research has been published in Cambridge Review of International Affairs, International Politics, Asian Politics & Policy, China Report and Earth System Governance.