Global governance and biopolitics : regulating human security / David Roberts.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roberts, David W. (David Wesley), 1962- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Globalization.

International organization.

International relations.

Human security.

Power (Social sciences).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (207 pages)

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021

Place of Publication:

London, England : Zed Books, 2010.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

This seminal work is the first fully to engage human security with power in the international system. It presents global governance not as impartial institutionalism, but as the calculated mismanagement of life, directing biopolitical neoliberal ideology through global networks, undermining the human security of millions. The book responds to recent critiques of the human security concept as incoherent by identifying and prioritizing transnational human populations facing life-ending contingencies en mass. Furthermore, it proposes a realignment of World Bank practices towards mobilizing indigenous provision of water and sanitation in areas with the highest rates of avoidable child mortality. Roberts demonstrates that mainstream IR's nihilistic domination of security thinking is directly responsible for blocking the realization of greater human security for countless people worldwide, whilst its assumptions and attendant policies perpetuate the dystopia its proponents claim is inevitable. Yet this book presents a viable means of achieving a form of human security so far denied to the most vulnerable people in the world.

Contents:

1. Humanizing Security?

2. Global Governance or Global Hegemony?

3. A New 'Nebuleuse'?

4. Neoliberalism, Water and Sanitation

5. Social Reconstruction and World Bank Policy

6. Norms and Change.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-187) and index.

Print version record.

ISBN:

9786612473067

9781350220423

1350220426

9781848136892

1848136897

9781282473065

1282473069

9781848132184

1848132182

OCLC:

607618741