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Securitising Climate Change: An Analysis of Barbados’ advocacy for SIDS in international climate change negotiations

Andersson, Akhia LU (2023) STVK12 20231
Department of Political Science
Abstract
In the last twenty-five years, the influence of climate change over the lives of the world’s citizens has become a central topic of discussion within multilateral organisations such as the United Nations. The topic of policy and decision- making capacity, as well as representation of developing nations such as Small Island Developing States (SIDS) is also constant. This research is conducted as a case study into Barbados, and through the use of a discourse analysis on four addresses presented by Prime Minster Mia Amor Mottley at the 2018 and 2019 United Nations General Assemblies and the 2021 and 2022 Framework Convention on Climate Change Conferences, aims to answer the research question of how Barbados advocate for SIDS concerns in... (More)
In the last twenty-five years, the influence of climate change over the lives of the world’s citizens has become a central topic of discussion within multilateral organisations such as the United Nations. The topic of policy and decision- making capacity, as well as representation of developing nations such as Small Island Developing States (SIDS) is also constant. This research is conducted as a case study into Barbados, and through the use of a discourse analysis on four addresses presented by Prime Minster Mia Amor Mottley at the 2018 and 2019 United Nations General Assemblies and the 2021 and 2022 Framework Convention on Climate Change Conferences, aims to answer the research question of how Barbados advocate for SIDS concerns in international climate change forums. The data is a set of transcriptions of these speeches, organised through a process of coding which has been determined by an inductive approach as well as a priori approach based in a theoretical framework of securitisation. This study examines linguistic tools used in these addresses and the findings identify six key themes used to represent SIDS in these global climate change arenas: environmental disasters, inequality, collaboration, call to action, finance and policy, and survival. (Less)
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author
Andersson, Akhia LU
supervisor
organization
course
STVK12 20231
year
type
M2 - Bachelor Degree
subject
keywords
Barbados, SIDS, United Nations, Securitisation, Climate change, Advocacy, Discourse Analysis, Mia Amor Mottley
language
English
id
9134180
date added to LUP
2024-08-07 14:38:51
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2024-08-07 14:38:51
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  abstract     = {{In the last twenty-five years, the influence of climate change over the lives of the world’s citizens has become a central topic of discussion within multilateral organisations such as the United Nations. The topic of policy and decision- making capacity, as well as representation of developing nations such as Small Island Developing States (SIDS) is also constant. This research is conducted as a case study into Barbados, and through the use of a discourse analysis on four addresses presented by Prime Minster Mia Amor Mottley at the 2018 and 2019 United Nations General Assemblies and the 2021 and 2022 Framework Convention on Climate Change Conferences, aims to answer the research question of how Barbados advocate for SIDS concerns in international climate change forums. The data is a set of transcriptions of these speeches, organised through a process of coding which has been determined by an inductive approach as well as a priori approach based in a theoretical framework of securitisation. This study examines linguistic tools used in these addresses and the findings identify six key themes used to represent SIDS in these global climate change arenas: environmental disasters, inequality, collaboration, call to action, finance and policy, and survival.}},
  author       = {{Andersson, Akhia}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Securitising Climate Change: An Analysis of Barbados’ advocacy for SIDS in international climate change negotiations}},
  year         = {{2023}},
}