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Audience; the weak link in the  securitization process of the 

environment?

Audience; the weak link in the  securitization process of the 

environment?

Anastasios Karafoulidis

National University of AthensAnastasios KarafoulidisAnastasios Karafoulidis

National University of AthensNational University of Athens

The 3 pillars of securitization

1. Actors

2. Speech acts

3. Audience

How can an audience be convinced

1. By traditional speech acts (all verbal utterances made by institutionally powerful actors)

2. Through visual representations

3. By being an actual victim

4. By being positively prepared (or  constructed)

Ineffective speech acts?

Ephemeral visual images?

Insufficient suffering?

Investing on social construction