Newman, E (2016) Human Security: Reconciling Critical Aspirations with Political ‘Realities’. British Journal of Criminology, 56 (6). pp. 1165-1183. ISSN 0007-0955
Abstract
This article explores the concept of ‘human security’: the idea that the referent object and beneficiary of security should be individuals. It demonstrates that the concept has had some success as a normative reference point for human-centred policy movements internationally, and it reflects a broader shift towards human agency and human-centred conceptions of security. As a theoretical concept, therefore, the idea contributes to a multi-disciplinary reconceptualization of security that draws upon theoretical debates in political science and criminology. However, attempts to operationalize it have exposed fundamental problems in the new security discourse more broadly, generating critiques in political science and criminology which share common foundations but which are rarely engaged in an integrated manner. This article explores whether critical or radical security ideas like human security can be reconciled with political ‘realities’ or whether this undermines their intellectual integrity. In addressing this debate from an international relations perspective, the article also engages with criminological scholarship on security in order to identify and strengthen links across the disciplines.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2016, The Author. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies (ISTD). This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society following peer review. The version of record "Newman, E (2016) Human Security: Reconciling Critical Aspirations with Political ‘Realities’. British Journal of Criminology, 56 (6). pp. 1165-1183. ISSN 0007-0955" is available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azw016 |
Keywords: | human security; critical security studies; United Nations; everyday security |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Politics & International Studies (POLIS) (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 01 Feb 2016 12:21 |
Last Modified: | 17 Feb 2018 01:38 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azw016 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
Identification Number: | 10.1093/bjc/azw016 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:94213 |