Staff profile

Cameron Harrington is an Assistant Professor of international relations in the School of Government and International Affairs. He is a researcher and analyst of global environmental politics. His research draws from international relations, political philosophy, criminology, and human geography and focuses on the theory and practice of security in the Anthropocene.

He earned his PhD in political science from The University of Western Ontario in 2014. Between 2014-2015 he held the Global Change and Sustainability Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Cape Town and was an affiliate researcher with WWF-South Africa. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the International Centre for Comparative Criminology, University of Montreal in 2016. Dr. Harrington is also appointed as a Research Associate (non-resident) in the Global Risk Governance Programme, University of Cape Town.

• Anthropocene
• Critical security studies
• Global Environmental Politics
• IR Theory
• Posthumanism
• Water Security

Authored book

• Harrington, C., & Shearing, C. (2017). Security in the Anthropocene: Reflections on Safety and Care. transcript. https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839433379

Chapter in book

• Harrington, C. (2023). Climate Change as a “Threat Multiplier”: The Construction of Climate Security by the United Kingdom—2007–2020. In J. Nora Hardt, C. Harrington, F. von Lucke, A. Estève, & N. P. Simpson (Eds.), Climate Security in the Anthropocene: Exploring the Approaches of United Nations Security Council Member-States (297-318). (1). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-26014-8_14
• Hardt, J. N., Harrington, C., von Lucke, F., Estève, A., & Simpson, N. P. (2023). Introduction: A Framework for Assessing Climate Security. In J. Nora Hardt, C. Harrington, F. von Lucke, A. Estève, & N. P. Simpson (Eds.), Climate Security in the Anthropocene: Exploring the Approaches of United Nations Security Council Member-States (1-23). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-26014-8_1
• Harrington, C. (2020). A Quantum Anthropocene? International Relations Between Rupture and Entanglement. In J. Castro Pereira, & A. Saramago (Eds.), Non-Human Nature in World Politics (53-73). Springer Verlag
• Harrington, C. (2017). Posthuman Security and Care in the Anthropocene. In C. Eroukhmanoff, & M. Harker (Eds.), Reflections on the posthuman in international relations : the Anthropocene, security and ecology (73-86). E-International Relations

Edited book

• Hardt, J. N., Harrington, C., von Lucke, F., Estève, A., & Simpson, N. P. (Eds.). (2023). Climate Security in the Anthropocene: Exploring the Approaches of United Nations Security Council Member-States. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-26014-8

Journal Article

• Hardt, J. N., Jayaram, D., Harrington, C., McLaren, D., Simpson, N. P., Cook, A. D. B., Oliveira, M. C., von Lucke, F., Trombetta, J. M., Daoudy, M., Floyd, R., Oramah, C. P., Anthony, M. C., & Estève, A. (2024). The challenges of the increasing institutionalization of climate security. PLoS Climate, 3(4), Article e0000402. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000402
• Harrington, C. (2023). The eternal return: Imagining security futures at the Doomsday Vault. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 6(4), 2614–2635. https://doi.org/10.1177/25148486221145365
• Harrington, C., Montana, P., Schmidt, J. J., & Swain, A. (2023). Race, Ethnicity, and the Case for Intersectional Water Security. Global Environmental Politics, 23(2), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1162/glep_a_00702
• Woolley, O., & Harrington, C. (2022). Law and governance in the Anthropocene. Global Policy, 13(S3), 5-10. https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.13168
• Holley, C., Shearing, C., Harrington, C., Kennedy, A., & Mutongwizo, T. (2018). Environmental Security and the Anthropocene: Law, Criminology, and International Relations. Annual Review of Law and Social Science, 14, 185-203. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-lawsocsci-101317-030945
• Harrington, C., Lecavalier, E., & Shearing, C. (2017). From passengers to crew: introductory reflections. Crime, Law and Social Change, 68(5), 493-498. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10611-017-9698-y
• Lecavalier, E., & Harrington, C. (2017). Entangling carbon lock-in: India’s coal constituency. Crime, Law and Social Change, 68(5), 529-546. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10611-017-9701-7
• Harrington, C. (2017). The political ontology of collaborative water governance. Water International, 42(3), 254-270. https://doi.org/10.1080/02508060.2017.1309507
• Harrington, C. (2016). The Ends of the World: International Relations and the Anthropocene. Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 44(3), 478-498. https://doi.org/10.1177/0305829816638745
• Harrington, C. (2015). Toward a critical water security: hydrosolidarity and emancipation. Canadian Foreign Policy Journal, 21(1), 28-44. https://doi.org/10.1080/11926422.2013.846269
• Harrington, C., & Lecavalier, E. (2014). The environment and emancipation in critical security studies: the case of the Canadian Arctic. Critical Studies on Security, 2(1), 105-119. https://doi.org/10.1080/21624887.2013.856197