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Author Nunes, João

Title Security, emancipation and the politics of health : a new theoretical perspective / João Nunes
Published Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (152 pages)
Series PRIO new security studies
PRIO new security studies.
Contents Part I.A new theoretical perspective -- part II. Security, emancipation and the politics of health
Summary This book develops a new theoretical framework for the study of security issues and applies this to the case of health. Building on the work of the 'Welsh School' of Security Studies, and drawing on contributions from the wider critical security literature, the book provides an emancipatory perspective on the health-security nexus - one which simultaneously teases out its underlying political assumptions, assesses its political effects and identifies potential for transformation. Security, Emancipation and the Politics of Health challenges conventional wisdom in the fiel
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Security, International.
Public health.
Representative government and representation.
public health.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
Public health
Representative government and representation
Security, International
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781134578436
1134578431
9781315887425
1315887428