Intervening for human security

Morrissey, John

doi:10.4337/9781788115483.00008

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“…The global health security crisis experienced in the wake of COVID-19 was guaranteed by a long-established hegemony of narrowly conceived statist security concerns. Dominant forms of statist securitization, focused on borders and territorial, military and police control, are typically bereft of broader 'human security' registers that could have been anticipatory of the holistic and people-centred security measures required to respond more effectually and cooperatively to a global pandemic [65][66][67][68]. When COVID-19 hit, the impoverished understanding and functioning of what constitutes 'security' was frightfully exposed in the calamitous inadequacies of healthcare infrastructures globally.…”

Section: More-than-human Securitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Planetary Precarity and ‘More-Than-Human Security’: The Securitization Challenge in the Aftermath of COVID-19

Morrissey

2021

Journal of Human Security

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has elevated anew the import of holistically conceiving human-environmental wellbeing and tackling the overarching precarities of our ecologies, societies and public health in strategies of securitization. This paper considers the key challenge of reimagining securitization in the aftermath of COVID-19 and makes two core arguments. The first is that in addressing precarity a key starting point lies in being mindful of how it is differentially experienced across multiple social hierarchies in the human world. The paper draws upon Judith Butler's work on 'frames of seeing' to consider how our current moment can elicit a contrapuntal concern for those who have always been precarious but not in view. The second core argument is that it is vital to move beyond a concern for human precarity to a concern for a broader sense of planetary precarity, which in turn prompts the need to strategize for a 'more-than-human' sense of security. Developing the concept of 'human security', the paper reflects on how we can usefully envision a 'more-than-human security' for a more biologically stable and sustainable planet.

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Section: More-than-human Securitymentioning

confidence: 99%