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    Global Governance and Biopolitics: Regulating Human Security

    By David Roberts

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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 institutionalism, but as the calculated mismanagement of life, directing biopolitical neoliberal ideology through global networks, undermining the human security of millions. 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 mass. Furthermore, it proposes a realignment of World Bank practices towards mobilizing indigenous provision of water and sanitation in areas with the highest rates of avoidable child mortality.

    Roberts demonstrates that mainstream IR's nihilistic domination of security thinking is directly responsible for blocking the realization of greater human security for countless people worldwide, whilst its assumptions and attendant policies perpetuate the dystopia its proponents claim is inevitable. Yet this book presents a viable means of achieving a form of human security so far denied to the most vulnerable people in the world.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherZed Books
    Release dateJul 4, 2013
    ISBN9781848136892
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    David Roberts

    David Roberts is a hugely talented and versatile artist and author. David began his career in fashion illustration, and his sharp eye for form and composition is showcased beautifully in his books with Andrea Beaty, which include Ada Twist, Scientist and Iggy Peck, Architect. His work ranges from feisty retellings of fairy tales created in collaboration with his sister, Lyn (Little Red, Sleeping Beauty, Rapunzel), to his brilliantly funny books with Julia Donaldson such as Tyrannosaurus Drip, The Troll and The Cook and the King. In 2006 he won the Nestlé Children’s Book Prize Gold Award for his line drawings in Mouse Noses On Toast, and Little Red was shortlisted for the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal. David’s sense of humour shines through in all his work, but especially his illustrations for The Bolds series by Julian Clary and the madcap Dirty Bertie books. Suffragette: The Battle for Equality was David’s first self-authored book and is an exquisitely illustrated history of the women’s suffrage movement, which has been a passion of David’s since his school days.

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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.Roberts argues that the semantics of human security should focus more on creating the conditions for meaningful human security and less on refining what human security actually is and where it stands in the broad scheme of security. He argues that a lack of the minimal requirements for a healthy life and physical security can be described as biopoverty and that biopoverty is systematically linked to failures in neo-liberal governance. Roberts seeks to develop a 'counter-hegemonic nebuleuse' to challenge the neo-liberal hegemony which informs current systems of global governance. However he also rejects cosmopolitan notions of global citizenship as unrealistic. 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 [says that if it's too long, scrap thrid paragraph first]'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