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Global Governance and Biopolitics : Regulating Human Security.
Title:
Global Governance and Biopolitics : Regulating Human Security.
Author:
Roberts, David.
ISBN:
9781848132184
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (207 pages)
Contents:
Prelims -- About the author -- Table and figures -- Table 1.1 Comparative global deaths from war and diseases, direct and indirect violence, 2002-05 -- Figure 3.1 Facilitators and inhibitors for engagement with neoliberalism -- Figure 3.2 How poverty and ill health prevent engagement with neoliberalismand maintain the status quo -- Figure 5.1 Regulating the U5MR - the potential impact of externally assisted indigenous entrepreneurialism in water and sanitation provision -- Figure 6.1 Schematic outlining paths of pressure invoked by norms entrepreneurs and the 'downstream' effect on global governance, biopolitical management and human security -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1

What kind of social provision? For whom? -- Conclusion -- 5
Abstract:
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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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