ISBN:
9780415706551
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (208 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Interventions
Parallel Title:
Print version Globalization, Difference, and Human Security
DDC:
303.48/2
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Globalization, Difference, and Human Security seeks to advance critical human security studies by re-framing the concept of human security in terms of the thematic of difference. Drawing together a wide range of contributors, the volume is framed, among others, around the following key questions:What are the silences and erasures of advancing a critical human security alternative without making recognition of difference its central plank?How do we rethink the complex interplay of human security and difference in distinct and varied spatial and cultural settings p
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Notes on contributors; Introduction; PART I Genealogy and Critique; 1 The role for 'human security' in an IR that can learn from difference; 2 Global politics of human security; 3 Rethinking the subject of human security; 4 Human security, culture, and globalization: transculturality, creative practice or oeuvre?; 5 De-secularizing the 'human': religion, identity, and critical human security; PART II Other Horizons; 6 The missing human: intervention, human security, and empire
Description / Table of Contents:
7 Developmentalism, human security, indigenous rights8 Slums, 'subsistence' and human security; 9 Indigeneity and difference; PART III Difference, Globalization, and Governing Practices; 10 The fantastic world of human security through global governance; 11 The romance of global health security; 12 Slavery remains in reconstruction and development; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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