Global Health and Security: Critical Feminist Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9781138677364 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 224 str.

Colleen O'Manique; Pieter Fourie

Opis

The past decade has witnessed a significant increase in the construction of health as a security issue by national governments and multilateral organizations. This book provides the first critical, feminist analysis looking at the global flesh-and-blood impact of the securitization of health on different bodies. This collection looks at how feminist perspectives on health and security lead to different questions about health and in/security, problematizing some of the 'common sense' assumptions that underlie much of the discourse in this area. It considers the power relations - the norms, ideologies, and vested interests that frame specific 'threats' to health and policy responses, exposing the role that hegemonic masculinities play in constructing health and security policies. Divided into two thematic clusters, the first part of this book focuses on conflict, war and complex emergencies, amplifying their orthodox situation within International Relations. The second reviews the themes of structural violence and human security, moving from a 'high political' focus to the domain of more subtle and often insidious structural violence. Highlighting the critical intersections across health, gender and security, this book is an important contribution to scholarship on health and security, global health, public health and gender studies.

Spis treści

1. Global Health, Gender, and the Security Question – Colleen O’Manique and Pieter Fourie 2. The Invisible Tragedy of War. Women and the Environment – H. Patricia Hynes3. Survivors of Conflict and Post-Conflict Sexual and Gender-Based Violence and Torture in the Great Lakes Region of Africa. A Holistic Model of Care – Helen Liebling4. Securing Health in Afghanistan. Gender, Militarized Humanitarianism, and the Legacies of Occupation – Vanessa Farr5. A Moving Target. Gender, Health and the Securitisation of Migration – Sarah Pugh6. The Global Movement for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights. Intellectual Underpinnings – Adrienne Germain  7. Solving Nandi. the Personal Embodiment of Structural Injustice in South Africa’s Child Support Grant – Tessa Hochfeld8. Responses to Recent Infectious Disease Emergencies. A Critical Gender Analysis – Colleen O’Manique9. The Invisible Men. HIV, Security, and Men who have Sex with Women – Simon 10. Labouring Bodies in the Global Economy. Structural Violence and Occupational Health -- Teresa Healy11. Public Health in the Anthropocene. Exploring Population Fears and Climate Threats – Jade Sasser12. Bewitched or Deranged. Access to Health Care for Transgender Persons – Chloe Schwenke 13. Development as Violence. Corporeal Needs, Embodied Life, and the Sustainable Development Goals – Colleen O’Manique and Pieter Fourie

O autorze

Colleen O’Manique teaches at Trent University, Canada. Her research has focused on feminist political economy and rights-based perspectives on health and health policies in the context of neoliberal globalization.

Pieter Fourie teaches at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. His research focuses on HIV/AIDS, global health governance, political epidemiology and the political economy of global development.