Introduction to 'Risks, Ruptures and Uncertainties: Dealing with Crisis in Asia's Emerging Economies'

Endres, Kirsten W.; Six-Hohenbalken, Maria

doi:10.3167/ca.2014.320205

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“…Many writers and scholars have taken up the concerns identified by Marx and Durkheim and developed them in relation to late modernity and globalisation (Bauman 2000(Bauman , 2003(Bauman , 2005(Bauman , 2006a(Bauman , 2006b(Bauman , 2011Beck 1992;Bhide and Stevenson 1992;Endres and Six-Hohenbalken 2014;Giddens 1990Giddens , 1991Harvey 2006;Heine and Thakur 2011;Standing 2016;Stiglitz 2002;Watson and Moran 2005;Zinn 2008). Zygmunt Bauman and Anthony Giddens in particular provide valuable insight on contemporary human insecurities.…”

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Human security, marginality and precariousness in Southeast Asia

Carnegie¹,

King²,

Knudsen³

2021

IJAPS

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Besides the more obvious threats and impediments to human security posed by conflict or natural disaster, a central problem in examining and addressing multiple insecurities in Southeast Asia is at what level. Each country confronts a different context of human security and faces a host of intersecting circumstances that render situational day-to-day forms of precariousness difficult to recognise and interpret. How then are we to proceed? This article considers a range of social science concepts and approaches (which have not been brought together in this form before) and their utility for investigating human security in the region. It argues that more disaggregated and grounded perspectives can open the way for human security to gain fuller analytical purchase on contemporary marginality and precariousness in Southeast Asia.

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Human security, marginality and precariousness in Southeast Asia

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King²,

Knudsen³

2021

IJAPS

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Disasters, Ruins, and Crises: Masculinity and Ramifications of Storms in Vietnam

Rydström

2019

Ethnos

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This article explores climate disasters in the era of the Anthropocene from a gender specific crisis perspective; as conditions of unpredictable outcomes and ruination which are encroaching differentiated ramifications upon inhabitants in coastal Vietnam. The article contests the ways in which the notions of vulnerability and resilience tend to understand a disaster as an interrupting event, which could be overcome by those upon whom the damage has befallen so life can return to normal. A crisis perspective, the article argues, offers an alternative avenue to an analysis of disasters by focusing on the entanglements between a crisis of emergency and a spectrum of various crises antecedents fostered by gendered livelihoods, masculinized privileges, and violences. When various crises modalities, intensities, and temporalities intersect with one another, a crisis in context might morph into crisis as context; into a disordered order of slow harm which impedes the return to pre-disaster normalcy.

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Disaster, risk and conducting human security research in Southeast Asia

Carnegie

2024

SEAMJ

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PurposeTyphoons, storm surges and sea-level rise pose major risks to life and livelihoods in Southeast Asia and demand state-level action. However, the prominence and frequency of these symptomatic disasters often divert attention from underlying systemic and situational issues. The purpose of this paper is a normative and conceptual one. It makes the case for a grounded and disaggregated human security approach for decoding complex relationships of risk, power, politics, inequality and mistrust that underpin problems we seek to address.Design/methodology/approachThis paper’s approach situates the emergence of the human security paradigm and its connections to human development, sustainable economic growth and rights-based protections in historical context. It then draws on observations across the region over a number of years combined with a review of relevant research to detail how the vulnerability and exposure to disaster of at-risk communities extend beyond random or natural events. Having established that a focus on the immediate characteristics of disaster limits our frames of reference and the utility of subsequent responses, it proceeds to analyse the political, environmental and economic drivers amplifying exposure to disaster in Southeast Asia.FindingsThe findings reveal that the vulnerability and insecurity experienced by at-risk communities are not wholly random or exclusively the result of natural, unavoidable events. Exposure to disasters is also shaped by various situational factors, including habitat loss, dispossession, displacement, marginalisation and limited opportunities. Incorporating a more holistic human security perspective can bring into focus the less visible forces and interests that amplify vulnerability to hazard risk for affected individuals and communities in the region.Originality/valueThis is an original paper that underscores the conceptual and methodological importance of a grounded and disaggregated human security approach to grasp the disaster-prone territories of risk in contemporary Southeast Asia and for advancing appropriate responses.

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Introduction to 'Risks, Ruptures and Uncertainties: Dealing with Crisis in Asia's Emerging Economies'

Cited by 4 publications

References 14 publications

Human security, marginality and precariousness in Southeast Asia

Human security, marginality and precariousness in Southeast Asia

Disasters, Ruins, and Crises: Masculinity and Ramifications of Storms in Vietnam

Disaster, risk and conducting human security research in Southeast Asia

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