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Angela Oels
Researcher at Open University
Publications - 20
Citations - 1386
Angela Oels is an academic researcher from Open University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Climate change & Climate security. The author has an hindex of 11, co-authored 20 publications receiving 1147 citations. Previous affiliations of Angela Oels include Rolf C. Hagen Group & University of Hamburg.
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Does discourse matter? Discourse analysis in environmental policy making
Peter H. Feindt,Angela Oels +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a special issue on discourse analysis in the field of environmental policy and public management of natural resources is presented, which is concerned with theories and methodologies of discourse analysis and their contribution to environmental policy research.
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Rendering climate change governable: From biopower to advanced liberal government?
TL;DR: In this paper, a theoretical framework for analysing the politics of climate change on the basis of Foucault's concept of governmentality is presented, arguing that the ways in which climate change is rendered a governable entity are best understood before the background of a shift from biopower to advanced liberal government.
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From ‘fearing’ to ‘empowering’ climate refugees: Governing climate-induced migration in the name of resilience:
Chris Methmann,Angela Oels +1 more
TL;DR: The concept of resilience was born and grew up in the environmental sciences during the 1970s as discussed by the authors, and after migrating into many other disciplines, resilience is now "coming home" to the politics of the en...
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From ‘Securitization’ of Climate Change to ’Climatization‘ of the Security Field: Comparing Three Theoretical Perspectives
TL;DR: In this article, three theoretical perspectives are introduced that shed light on this question: the Copenhagen School, the human security perspective, and the Paris School, which all offer theoretical perspectives on the question of what it means (or should mean) to render something governable as a security issue and whether or not this is desirable.
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Rendering climate change governable by risk: From probability to contingency
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors use Foucault's concept of governmentality to investigate changes in the risk management of climate change and demonstrate that the risk construction has shifted significantly from 1988 to 2010, and related policies now include mitigation, adaptation and disaster preparedness.