1st Edition
Securing Health HIV and the Limits of Securitization
By Suzanne Hindmarch
Copyright 2016
196 Pages
by
Routledge
196 Pages
by
Routledge
196 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book offers a critical inquiry into the framing of health and disease as a security issue. In particular, the book examines what happens in the United Nations when the ostensibly ‘low’ politics of global health meet the ‘high’ politics of security, and when the logic of security comes to shape global health initiatives. It offers a critical re-assessment of efforts in the United Nations... Read more
1. Introduction: HIV and securitization as a transformative strategy in global health
2. Securitization as a policy process
3. Africa, HIV and security: the discursive context of threat construction in securitization
4. Speech acts, framing contests, and strategic action in HIV securitization
5 When urgency meets bureaucracy: boundary work in HIV and security policy implementation
6. Through the looking glass: the production of HIV and security knowledge
7. The limits of ‘securing’ health through securitization
8. Conclusion
Biography
Suzanne Hindmarch is Assistant Professor of political science at the University of New Brunswick, Canada.
