An update from the European Journal of International Security
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Bohdana Kurylo's 'The iron road home: Ukrainian Railways, resilience, and ontological security under Russia’s terror' has been especially popular on our social media channels, prompting a lot of discussion, and examining how the resilience of Ukraine’s railway system, Ukrzaliznytsia, has functioned as a source of ontological security following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
M. L. Kirsch's 'Mass consumerism and ontological security' explores the relationship between the economy and ontological security studies in great detail and to great success, arguing that citizens’ economic expectations are generated by a state’s position in international recognition hierarchies of mass consumerism and living standard; if fulfilled, citizens gain system trust and a sense that their social environment is stable and enduring, while the ongoing misrecognition of those economic expectations generates grievances and discontent and erodes state legitimacy.
Pauline Sophie Heinrichs' 'Climate change and the production of ontological security: Towards transformative politics, reflexivity, and emotive agency' argues that when faced with the existential politics of climate change, the ontological security literature has focused mostly on the production of ontological insecurity through climate change or transitions and not, however, on the possibility of seeking ontological security through addressing climate change, planetary boundaries, and existential risk.
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