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Policing the Anthropocene Friday, 3 July 2015 from 12:30 to 16:30 (BST) Bournemouth, United Kingdom Sea levels rise, droughts, floods and superstorms destroy livelihoods and force migration. Entrenched in militarised security cultures, nature is rendered unstable, a risk, a threat to be mitigated and controlled. And those people, displaced and disenfranchised, are deemed by security discourses as byproducts. They too must be managed, subdued, contained. It is no longer only the boundless threat of terrorism that fuels xenophobic pursuits of absolute security, now too, the climate is coming. As hybrid, state-private security partnerships enter ever more profitable deals to secure borders, investment firms are busy weatherproofing the rich, and protest against the corporate purveyors of climate change continues to be violently cracked down. This workshop considers the contours of Policing the Anthropocene, interrogating the cross-sections of climate, capitalism and security. With: Dr Nafeez Ahmed Institute for Policy Research & Development Dr Anja Kanngieser AUSCCER/ Department of Geography, University of Wollongong Dr Steve Wright Politics and Applied Global Ethics, Leeds Beckett University To register for this free event go to: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/policing-the-anthropocene-tickets-17149282967? Dr. Anna Feigenbaum Senior Lecturer in Media Programme Leader, BA (Hons) Politics and Media The Media School, Weymouth House Bournemouth University, Talbot Campus Poole, Dorset BH12 5BB United Kingdom BU is a Disability Two Ticks Employer and has signed up to the Mindful Employer charter. Information about the accessibility of University buildings can be found on the BU DisabledGo webpages This email is intended only for the person to whom it is addressed and may contain confidential information. If you have received this email in error, please notify the sender and delete this email, which must not be copied, distributed or disclosed to any other person. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Bournemouth University or its subsidiary companies. Nor can any contract be formed on behalf of the University or its subsidiary companies via email.