Human Security and Empowerment in Asia - Beyond the Pandemic

Against the backdrop of global COVID-19 pandemic setbacks, this edited volume is a timely contribution to revisit the comprehensive framing of human security and development by examining the protection-empowerment nexus applied to different vulnerable groups and populations affected by the pandemic.

List of contents

1. Human Security and Empowerment: Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World
2. Urban Poverty during COVID-19 in Vietnam Case Study: Ma Lang-Dong Tien Neighborhood, Ho Chi Minh
3. COVID-19 Impact on the Most Vulnerable Communities In Indonesia
4. ‘Lacking in Care’: COVID-19 ‘Shadow Pandemics’ in the Philippines (2020–2021)
5. Finding Empowerment Amidst Displacement and Immobility during Disasters
6. COVID-19 and Plastic Pollution in the Citarum River, Indonesia
7. From Vertical to Horizontal Empowerment of Women (in) Peace and Security: Towards a Feminist Perspective of Human Security
8. Aging Society in Thailand during the COVID-19 Pandemic
9. COVID-19 AND BARMM: The Nested Process of Protection and Empowerment
10. In Quest of Empowerment

About the author

Mely Caballero-Anthony is Professor of International Relations and Head of the Centre for Non-Traditional Security (NTS) Studies at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Yoichi Mine is Executive Director of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) Ogata Sadako Research Institute for Peace and Development and Professor at the Graduate School of Global Studies, Doshisha University, Japan.
Sachiko Ishikawa is Professor at the Faculty of International Relations, Ritsumeikan University, Japan, and Visiting Fellow at Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) Ogata Sadako Research Institute for Peace and Development.

Summary

Against the backdrop of global COVID-19 pandemic setbacks, this edited volume is a timely contribution to revisit the comprehensive framing of human security and development by examining the protection-empowerment nexus applied to different vulnerable groups and populations affected by the pandemic.

Product details

• Authors: Mely (Nanyang Technological Uni Caballero-Anthony
• Assisted by: Mely Caballero-Anthony (Editor), Caballero-Anthony Mely (Editor), Sachiko Ishikawa (Editor), Yoichi Mine (Editor), Mine Yoichi (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.10.2023
• EAN: 9781032554433
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3255443-3
• No. of pages: 228
• Series: Politics in Asia
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Japan, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, Society & culture: general, Politics & government, Regional Studies, Politics and government, Regional / International studies, Society and culture: general, Natural disasters, Human Geography, Regional Geography