Environment, Security, and Terrorism in the Trinational Frontier of the Southern Cone

Author: Carmen Ferrad‡s

Source: Identities: Global Studies in Power and Culture, Volume 11, Number 3, July-September 2004 , pp. 417-442(26)

Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group

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Abstract:

This article analyzes the transformations of notions of governmentality, security, and sovereignty behind recent processes of securitization in the trinational frontier of the Southern Cone, which encompasses the cities of Puerto Iguaz oelig

(Argentina), Ciudad del Este (Paraguay), and Foz do Igua oelig

(Brazil). It examines how early concerns with security that were primarily focused on the territorial integrity of nation-states have been replaced with security concerns of a more global nature, which call into question established mechanisms of control, particularly those related to the defense of national borders. It examines how environmental concerns are increasingly becoming conflated with other current forms of securitization such as terrorism, popular unrest, and narcotraffic and it analyzes devastating effects of these processes on peoples of the South, particularly the poor.

Keywords: environmentalism, security, borders, globalization

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10702890490493563

Affiliations: 1: Department of Anthropology, Binghamton University, State University of New York, Binghamton, New York, USA

Publication date: 2004-07-01

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