Critical Perspectives on Human Security : Rethinking Emancipation and Power in International Relations.

Presents critical perspectives towards Human Security, which has become one of the key discourses in Security Studies and IR.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Chandler, David
Other Authors:	Hynek, Nik
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2010.
Series:	PRIO New Security Studies
Subjects:	Security, International. International relations. Human security. Human rights. international relations. Human rights Human security International relations Security, International
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Table of Contents:

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; Ind.

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