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Paper short abstract

This analysis looks at contemporary narrative on securitisation within the Global South and its implications for governance and sustainable development imperatives across states.

Paper long abstract

There are new actors in the Global South who adapt institutional norms, social, and political constructs to enable contemporary development. This is borne out of an increasing sense of agency among states and their societies in shouldering responsibility for national, regional security and ultimately global development. Such reality and adaptation of long-held Global North norms, principles and constructs is especially critical in relation to evolving narratives which can lead to tackling challenges of socio-economic development, environmental governance, security framework securitisation within these states. As a social construct and in practice, securitisation can be unevenly distributed over periods of time and space, sometimes triggered by power asymmetry, resource scarcity and natural disasters. In the building of narratives on securitisation, language is significant in understanding and shaping unfolding issues. Especially, on natural resource management, environmental governance and how to evolve the right security architecture/framework for states. Arguably, in the Global South, the emplacement of social constructs like securitisation on one hand is happening simultaneously with the aforementioned unfolding challenging issues. Methodically, this paper adopts discursive institutionalism, where narratives are seriously analysed within socio-economic, environmental and security contexts, as well as drawing on secondary sources like journals, newspaper reports, policy papers and briefs. It will interrogate and examine the various emerging securitisation narratives among scholars, security practitioners, policy and subject matter experts. While it investigates and explores new thinking, and constructs on conceptual security issues and securitisation within the Global South.