Encountering COP26 as a security event: a short walking ethnography

Parr, H. (2023) Encountering COP26 as a security event: a short walking ethnography. Scottish Geographical Journal, 139(1-2), pp. 46-55. (doi: 10.1080/14702541.2022.2125563)

Abstract

This paper represents a short ethnographic encounter with the site of the COP26 Climate Conference in Glasgow in 2021. It communicates an experiential picturing of the site as it was assembled and disassembled, as this was recorded in notes, conversations, via phone footage and in a short talk afterwards with human geography colleagues at the University of Glasgow. The paper seeks to make sense of this short experiential encounter by drawing from scholarship on ethnography, security and events of emergency assemblage. The paper concludes by reflection on the ordinary purpose of walking sites of climate security and emergency.

• Item Type: Articles
• Status: Published
• Refereed: Yes
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Parr, Professor Hester
• Authors: Parr, H.
• College/School: College of Science and Engineering > School of Geographical and Earth Sciences
• Journal Name: Scottish Geographical Journal
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• ISSN: 1470-2541
• ISSN (Online): 1751-665X
• Published Online: 06 October 2022
• Copyright Holders: Copyright © 2022 The Author
• First Published: First published in Scottish Geographical Journal 139(1-2):46-55
• Publisher Policy: Reproduced under a Creative Commons License