Globalization, Difference, and Human Security

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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 produced by global forces? * What is the nexus between human security and the broader field of global development? * What new challenges to Human Security and International Relations are produced with the rise of the ‘post-liberal’ or ‘post-secular’ subject? * In what ways releasing human security from identification with the territorial state helps reconceptualize culture? * How does Human Security serve as a subspecies of modern humanitarian thought or the latter reinforce imperial imaginaries and the structures of order and morality? * Is the pursuit of indigenous rights fundamentally counterpoised to the pursuit of human security? * What difference it might make to take the ‘doings and beings’ of communities-of-subsistence rather than basic-needs/wealth-seeking individuals as a point of departure in critical human security studies? * How does reconstruction bind post-war and post-disaster states and societies into the global capitalist-democratic political structure? Cover......Page 1 Title......Page 8 Copyright......Page 9 Dedication......Page 10 Contents......Page 12 Acknowledgements......Page 14 Notes on contributors......Page 15 Introduction......Page 18 PART I Genealogy and Critique......Page 32 1 The role for ‘human security’ in an IR that can learn from difference......Page 34 2 Global politics of human security......Page 44 3 Rethinking the subject of human security......Page 55 4 Human security, culture, and globalization: transculturality, creative practice or oeuvre?......Page 68 5 De-secularizing the ‘human’: religion, identity, and critical human security......Page 81 PART II Other Horizons......Page 94 6 The missing human: intervention, human security, and empire......Page 96 7 Developmentalism, human security, indigenous rights......Page 108 8 Slums, ‘subsistence’ and human security......Page 120 9 Indigeneity and difference......Page 133 PART III Difference, Globalization, and Governing Practices......Page 144 10 The fantastic world of human security through global governance......Page 146 11 The romance of global health security......Page 157 12 Slavery remains in reconstruction and development......Page 169 Bibliography......Page 183 Index......Page 204