LABMUNDO concludes 2025 with a lecture by Rita Floyd
This past month, on 24 November, the Rio de Janeiro branch of the World Political Analysis Laboratory proudly welcomed internationalist Rita Floyd to the Institute of Social and Political Studies (ESP-UERJ) to present her latest research on securitisation at our 2025 final plenary session. Speaking to Labmundan researchers and other audience members, the professor from the Department of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Birmingham (United Kingdom) gave a lecture entitled Right and wrong securitisation: Why ethics matters in security policy and how (not) to securitise.
PhD from the Department of Political and International Studies at the University of Warwick, Rita Floyd is a Full Professor at the University of Birmingham, appointed Birmingham Fellow in Conflict and Security by the institution. She also serves as editor-in-chief of the International Affairs journal, published by Chatham House, and as a research associate at the Institute for Environmental Security (IES). She is the author of the book The Duty to Secure: From just to mandatory securitization (Cambridge University Press, 2024) and the article NATO and Climate Change (Defence Studies, 2025), as well as co-editor of the collection Environmental Security: Approaches, Issues and Actors (Routledge, 2025). Her teaching and research work focuses on the study of securitisation, with a special interest in the ethics of emergency policies, securitisation theory, and climate/environmental securitisation.
Held in person at the Carlos Hasenbalg Room at IESP-UERJ, LABMUNDO plenary sessions are periodic meetings between the Laboratory team, aimed at discussing our research agendas, projects under development, and topics of common interest.