1st Edition

Positive Security Collective Life in an Uncertain World

196 Pages
by Routledge

196 Pages
by Routledge

196 Pages
by Routledge

This book critically conceptualises positive security and explores multiple areas in global politics where positive security can be studied as an alternative to the existing understandings and practices of security. Structured through a framework on the practice and ethics of everyday security, the book defines positive security as a focal point of contextual and spatiotemporal moments that... Read more

1. Introduction: Why Positive Security?

2. Positive Security: Encounters as a Multiactor Security Approach

3. Human Security, Gender Security, and Positive Security: Sharing Perspectives from the North

4. Encounters and Positive Security: Radical Human Security as a Research Agenda

5. Civilian Agency, Identity, and the Power to Define Security

6. Power and Positive Security: Emancipatory Security through Arendt and Butler

7. Social Orders and Positive Security: Greece–Turkey Relations as a Failed Pursuit of Positive Security

8. Positive, Multiactor Security and the Comprehensive Approach

9. Conclusion: Looking Forward to Positive Security

Biography

Gunhild Hoogensen Gjørv is Professor of Security, Peace and Conflict Studies at the Arctic University of Norway.

Ali Bilgic is a Reader in International Relations and Security at Loughborough University, UK.