Gender and 'positive' security

Paul Roe*

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Abstract (may include machine translation)

Focusing predominantly on the works of Ken Booth and Bill McSweeney, this article explores how the normative commitment of the two writers to the individual referent and to a set of values constitutive of human agency is reflective of a more 'positive' security. In particular, the article focuses on how in their formulation of values, both Booth (security as emancipation) and McSweeney (ontological security) draw on gender and feminist approaches and, importantly, how critical feminist scholarship can profitably be used to reconcile concentration on both the global and the local, thus providing greater conceptual clarity and empirical grounding to the positive security project.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)116-138
Number of pages23
JournalInternational Relations
Volume28
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 2014

Keywords

  • emancipation
  • feminism
  • gender
  • ontological security
  • positive security
  • securitization

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