- Paperback: 224 pages
- Publisher: Zed Books; 1 edition (12 Oct 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1848132174
- ISBN-13: 978-1848132177
- Product Dimensions: 21.3 x 13.7 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 995,109 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'This book is an excellent critique of the theoretical games that academics can become distracted by and the hegemonic norms that policy makers perpetuate as common sense. It stands as a timely intervention into the debate on human security and as an innovative critique of global governance as an over-arching problem in terms of achieving broad human security. It adopts a 'neo-Foucauldian' approach which presents neo-liberalism as the calculated mismanagement of global life. ... Neo-liberal driven global governance is a cause of biopoverty, or to put it more bluntly death and those most at risk are poor children. So what can be done? Roberts argues that neo-liberal norms need not be cast aside completely in the search for human security but rather that the efficiency of markets be better utilized by a series of stakeholders who would identify who is at risk and determine how basic human needs can actually be met. This would involve relatively simple changes in the distribution and ownership of services and profit. This book will be useful for those studying human security, global governance and international political economy.' --Dr. Pauline Eadie, University Lecturer/Co-Director Institute of Asia Pacific Studies, University of Nottingham
'David Roberts has produced a tightly argued and impassioned manifesto for human security on a global scale. A manifesto which puts basic human needs at the centre and which argues that the barriers to meeting them are far from insuperable. Starting with the needs of those marginalised by traditional approaches, Roberts offers a new and challenging vision of power, policy-making and security for the twenty-first century.' --David Chandler, Professor of International Relations, University of Westminster
'Driven by the spectre of preventable poverty and suffering, David Roberts delivers a devastating critique of the neoliberal global order. As a way of bridging the global life-chance divide, Roberts provides a persuasive argument in support of human security as a mobilising and emancipatory concept. This is a must read for all those interested not only in social justice but the means by which social protection can be applied globally.' --Professor Mark Duffield, Director, Global Insecurities Centre, University of Bristol
'David Roberts has produced a tightly argued and impassioned manifesto for human security on a global scale. A manifesto which puts basic human needs at the centre and which argues that the barriers to meeting them are far from insuperable. Starting with the needs of those marginalised by traditional approaches, Roberts offers a new and challenging vision of power, policy-making and security for the twenty-first century.' --David Chandler, Professor of International Relations, University of Westminster
'Driven by the spectre of preventable poverty and suffering, David Roberts delivers a devastating critique of the neoliberal global order. As a way of bridging the global life-chance divide, Roberts provides a persuasive argument in support of human security as a mobilising and emancipatory concept. This is a must read for all those interested not only in social justice but the means by which social protection can be applied globally.' --Professor Mark Duffield, Director, Global Insecurities Centre, University of Bristol
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This seminal work is the first fully to engage human security with power in the international system. It presents global governance not as impartial, but as asymmetrical and violent towards those it marginalises through its Liberal control technologies, representing a biopolitical mechanism that in turn engineers biopoverty. In bypassing the usual thinking about narrow and broad understandings of human security, the book responds to recent critiques of the human security concept as incoherent by identifying and prioritizing transnational human populations facing life-ending contingencies en masse. Having done this, it evolves a bottom-up approach to reduce avoidable infant mortality that redirects World Bank lending strategies towards the mobilization of indigenous private sector provision of water and sanitation. Roberts offers a powerful critique of global governance as an ideational norm, and in practical terms, proposes human security policies that transcend borders without violating sovereignty, focused on the most lethally-exposed people in the world.
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This book was the first academic book that I read since leaving University in July. Having studied Politics (and in more detail environmental politics which this book covers aspects of) I thought that this Title might engage me with an old interest which waned during my final year.
It seemed at first that this book was not going to be the one to do this. Now I cannot be entirely sure but the first fifty pages of this book seemed to be a monotonous drag in which I struggled to maintain a interest in the subject matter. This could also have been due to it being the first academic book I'd read in a while and was part of an adaption to this. The first two chapters were not at all interesting and I feel anyone who reads this book could probably get the same benefit from reading the conclusions' of these chapters and then embarking on the rest of the book.
The final 110 pages of content however could not have been further from this. Mr Roberts manages to present the issue of biopolitics and governance with regards to its 'management and mismanagement' in both an engaging and easy to understand manner. Through addressing and attacking the assumptions that many of us have than Neo-Liberalism is the only acceptable way to manage global issues the author really forces you to consider whether this is the case at all. Through highlighting the pitfalls of neo-liberalism Roberts is able to present a compelling case for a global change to how we deal with biopoverty (he uses water sanitation as a model), which is both well thought out, explained in a decent enough way as to how this would be achieved. Roberts offers an alternative that although conservative enough in its proposed implementation to be acceptable to Neo-Liberalist the the effects it could offer would be great.
This book really opened my mind to the issues of biopoverty. If I had been given this book as reading material as an Undergraduate I would have been more than happy to have written an essay on the subject matter. If I was a lecturer (which I hope I will be one day) I think this book without question should be essential reading material on a second/third year module.
It seemed at first that this book was not going to be the one to do this. Now I cannot be entirely sure but the first fifty pages of this book seemed to be a monotonous drag in which I struggled to maintain a interest in the subject matter. This could also have been due to it being the first academic book I'd read in a while and was part of an adaption to this. The first two chapters were not at all interesting and I feel anyone who reads this book could probably get the same benefit from reading the conclusions' of these chapters and then embarking on the rest of the book.
The final 110 pages of content however could not have been further from this. Mr Roberts manages to present the issue of biopolitics and governance with regards to its 'management and mismanagement' in both an engaging and easy to understand manner. Through addressing and attacking the assumptions that many of us have than Neo-Liberalism is the only acceptable way to manage global issues the author really forces you to consider whether this is the case at all. Through highlighting the pitfalls of neo-liberalism Roberts is able to present a compelling case for a global change to how we deal with biopoverty (he uses water sanitation as a model), which is both well thought out, explained in a decent enough way as to how this would be achieved. Roberts offers an alternative that although conservative enough in its proposed implementation to be acceptable to Neo-Liberalist the the effects it could offer would be great.
This book really opened my mind to the issues of biopoverty. If I had been given this book as reading material as an Undergraduate I would have been more than happy to have written an essay on the subject matter. If I was a lecturer (which I hope I will be one day) I think this book without question should be essential reading material on a second/third year module.
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