Invitations for future collaboration on my research areas are always welcome! My research areas are:
- Green criminology and justice
- Green political theories
- Critical security studies
- Human rights and the rights of nature
- Environment democracy and governance
- Post-liberal peacebuilding
For centuries, human species has seemingly reigned as the ruler of the planet, but simultaneously vulnerable to multiple planetary crises. We are officially at the brink of a new geological epoch, ‘the Anthropocene’, where human activities determine the scope and depth of significant changes to the biosphere. In the meantime, the basic framework of human civilisations is being eroded and challenged by systematic failures to reconcile human interests with the sustainability of the planet.
As Hannah Arendt once said, “we create the conditions that in turn condition us”. In the face of global environmental challenges, our world that are created, maintained, and reproduced by work, labour, and actions is changing accordingly. Against this backdrop, what does it mean to be ‘human’ on our burning planet? How should social artifacts, especially law and governance, be re-created that will in turn condition our ‘human’ life?
Those questions guide my current research project, which investigates peace and security implications of the global movement to criminalise ‘ecocide’. Upon the completion of this project, I will be able to explain why and how the law of ecocide should be pushed to reconceptualise peace and security as human condition beyond the Anthropocene.