In the current post-pandemic climate biosecurity has emerged as a topic of importance and has further played a dominant role in regard to governance throughout the pandemic. Specifically, NATO’s latest set of policy recommendations to transatlantic biosecurity is the subject of scrutiny in this study, with the findings implying a discursive process of militarization. Guided by Bacchi’s WPR approach (2009), a poststructuralist policy analysis, this study sets out to oust the‘problem’ representations in NATO’s discourse and the logics that underpin them. Additionally, concepts of risk management and the Post-Copenhagen School support the identification of ‘problem’ representations identified aligned with the research purpose. Unexpected the vast body of academic literature ill attempts to produce counter discourse, where this research is embedded. This study argues from the analysis that a discourse originating from the conventionalist security-realm is dominating contemporary conceptions of biosecurity, whilst silencing others. What the NATO report manages to present is a very tangible threat actor with an increasing horizon of possibility of hostile bio-acts, of yet fearsome, unknown character, although what is left opaque is the role of Mother Nature. The study reflects on the motivation of the attempted discursive practice to channel biosecurity into a security-realm, which omits threats of ecological character and solely promoting the existential threat to derive from man. Which finally, is used to justify restrains to public engagement and openness.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:mau-54912 |
| Date | January 2022 |
| Creators | Nielsby Christensen, Stig |
| Publisher | Malmö universitet, Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS) |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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