Critical perspectives on human security : rethinking emancipation and power in international relations / / edited by David Chandler and Nik Hynek

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910459282103321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London : , : Routledge, , 2010
• ISBN: 1-136-94231-9; 1-282-78157-X; 9786612781575; 0-203-84758-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (217 p.)
• Collana: PRIO new security studies
• Altri autori (Persone): ChandlerDavid <1962->; HynekNik
• Disciplina: 327.1
• Soggetti: Security, International; International relations; Human security; Human rights; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; 1 Introduction: Emancipation and power in human security; Part I; 2 'We the peoples': Contending discourses of security in human rights theory and practice; 3 Development of the human security field: A critical examination; 4 Post-colonial hybridity and the return of human security; 5 Securitizing 'bare life': Critical perspectives on human security discourse; 6 Human security, biopoverty and the possibility for emancipation; 7 Institutionalised and co-opted: Why human security has lost its way; Part II; 8 The limits to emancipation in the human security framework9 Rethinking global discourses of security; 10 Human security and the securing of human life: Tracing global sovereign and biopolitical rule; 11 Problematizing life under biopower: A Foucauldian versus an Agambenite critique of human security; 12 Rethinking human security: ; History, economy, governmentality; 13 Human security: Sovereignty and disorder; 14 Inhuman security; Further reading; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This new book presents critical approaches towards Human Security, which has become one of the key areas for policy and academic debate within Security Studies and IR.The Human Security paradigm has had considerable significance for academics, policy-makers and practitioners. Under the rubric of Human Security, security policy practices seem to have transformed their goals and approaches, re-prioritising economic and social welfare issues?that were marginal to the state-based geo-political rivalries of the Cold War era. Human Security has reflected and reinforced the reconceptualisat