(In)secure environments and the domination of nature: Introduction to themed section

Abstract

This editorial introduces a four-paper thematic section on 'Insecure environments', growing out of a conference session held in 2012. Through an excursion into Adorno and Horkheimer's Dialectic of Enlightenment (1979), themes are identified to do with the dialectic of security and insecurity, as played out in humanity's modern dealings with nature. The four papers are then formally outlined and situated in relation to these themes of (in)secure environments, the domination of nature and its many repercussions.