Book (Research Monograph), forthcoming with Oxford University Press in September 2024 in the new European International Studies Association 'Voices in International Relations' Book Series
This book provides an analysis of the complex combinations of political and technological understandings entailed in what it terms as ‘planetary crisis management’. Arguing that the emergence, scope and scale of planetary insecurity and crisis management challenge traditional disciplinary boundaries of the study of International Relations and security, the book adopts an interdisciplinary outlook that integrates ideas and approaches from across political theory and anthropology (on conceptions of crisis); climate science and the wider study of environment and ecology in the ‘Anthropocene’ (on planetary insecurities and ideas of geoengineering); science and technology studies (on the ‘technopolitics’ of crisis management and the ‘sociotechnical imagination’ of planetary futures); and critical security studies (on critical approaches to the international and to security). In the process, the book considers how technopolitical ‘fixes’ for planetary crisis and emergency are often bound up with vexed questions of who ‘we’ are, and what it means to imagine and secure a planetary future.
Keywords: security, crisis, planetary, emergence, technology, technopolitics, climate, emergency, geoengineering.