194 Pages
by
Routledge
194 Pages
by
Routledge
194 Pages
by
Routledge
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Poverty and the Critical Security Agenda argues that poverty should be a central concern of security studies and critiques existing methodological approaches to poverty and 'well-being'. Using the Philippines as a case study, this book is critical of approaches to poverty that portray the poor as passive objects as opposed to dynamic actors. With this in mind, the relationship between poverty and... Read more
Contents: Introduction; The poverty of the security agenda; Human security and social injustice: a global and local story; Locating hegemony and counter-hegemony in Philippine historical experience; Constructions of poverty and insecurity; Coping strategies and counter moves; Neo-liberal hegemony and the illusion of democracy: the rhetoric and reality of people power; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
PAULINE EADIE School of Politics, University of Nottingham
