Securing Health: HIV and the Limits of Securitization

ISBN-13: 9780367596682 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 186 str.

Suzanne Hindmarch

Opis

This book is a critical inquiry into the framing of health and disease in security terms.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: HIV and securitization as a transformative strategy in global health

2. Securitization as a policy process

3. Africa, HIV and security: the discursive context of threat construction in securitization

4. Speech acts, framing contests, and strategic action in HIV securitization

5 When urgency meets bureaucracy: boundary work in HIV and security policy implementation

6. Through the looking glass: the production of HIV and security knowledge

7. The limits of ‘securing’ health through securitization

8. Conclusion

O autorze

Suzanne Hindmarch is Assistant Professor of political science at the University of New Brunswick, Canada.