ABSTRACT
The contemporary global governance involves a strong emphasis on security involving a number of strategies, conceptualized as securitization as emphasized in the field of governmentality studies. These strategies range from novel forms of surveillance made possible by new technologies, to new methods of organizing the policing of public and private spaces. This chapter takes a closer look at what research on the interaction between policymakers and social movements, both nationally and globally, tells about contemporary environmental governance. The Swedish Dagens Nyheter stands out through the comparatively low media standing it awards the Swedish environmental movement, although this may be explained in part by the de-prioritization of environmental journalism in major Swedish dailies mentioned above. Being aware of the impossibility of constructing clear-cut boundaries between the national and the global in the context of globalization.
