{"id":234,"date":"2008-04-01T00:06:59","date_gmt":"2008-04-01T04:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ghg-development\/?p=234"},"modified":"2013-02-15T13:08:57","modified_gmt":"2013-02-15T18:08:57","slug":"processes-of-securitization-of-infectious-diseases-and-western-hegemonic-power-a-historical-political-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ghg\/2008\/04\/01\/processes-of-securitization-of-infectious-diseases-and-western-hegemonic-power-a-historical-political-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"Processes of Securitization of Infectious Diseases and Western Hegemonic Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ghg\/files\/2008\/04\/Pereira_-Processes-of-Securitization-of-Infectious-Diseases-and-Western-Hegemonic-Power_Spring-2008.pdf\">Processes of Securitization of Infections Diseases and Western Hegemonic Power<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ricardo Pereira<\/p>\n<p>There is a generalized consensus today that major infectious diseases became global security issues. David Fidler considers it a recent, \u201crevolutionary\u201d1 process intimately connected to post-September 11 and post-2003 SARS2 outbreaks. In this article I introduce a perspective aimed at deepening Fidler\u2019s view. Drawing from Michel Foucault\u2019s analytics of power, I review the ramifications between epidemics\u2019 securitization and reinforcement of Western hegemonic liberal power after the Cold War through the human security paradigm. Rather than recent, this securitization proceeds from the colonial dominance system to which epidemiological surveillance and public hygiene were instrumental.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Processes of Securitization of Infections Diseases and Western Hegemonic Power Ricardo Pereira There is a generalized consensus today that major infectious diseases became global security issues. David Fidler considers it a recent, \u201crevolutionary\u201d1 process intimately connected to post-September 11 and post-2003 SARS2 outbreaks. In this article I introduce a perspective aimed at deepening Fidler\u2019s view. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":585,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-security","category-spring-2008"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ghg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ghg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ghg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ghg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/585"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ghg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ghg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":267,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ghg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions\/267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ghg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ghg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ghg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}