In Person: CFGS C168 (Sedgewick Building, University of Victoria) or Zoom. The meeting will take place from 12:00pm to 1:30pm PST. Register in advance for this meeting here. Registration is free but required.
Wildfire has been widespread in recent months, generating more than double the number of evacuees in Canada than in any previous year. Climate change is aggravating fires, but ironically is also being caused by humans making too many fires, because that is what burning fossil fuels is actually doing. Global climate change crosses borders in numerous ways, but attempting to tackle climate change has so far repeatedly run into jurisdictional issues related to bordering practices. In this talk, Dr. Simon Dalby will explore how scholars and activists might now grapple with these new circumstances caused by the overabundance of firepower in its various forms.
Dr. Simon Dalby is a Professor Emeritus at Wilfrid Laurier University. He was educated at Trinity College Dublin and the University of Victoria and he holds a Ph.D. from Simon Fraser University. His published research deals with climate change, environmental security and geopolitics. He is the author of Pyromania: Fire and Geopolitics in a Climate-Disrupted World (Agenda Publishing 2023), Rethinking Environmental Security (Edward Elgar 2022), Anthropocene Geopolitics: Globalization, Security, Sustainability (University of Ottawa Press 2020), and Security and Environmental Change (Polity 2009).
