Risking Lives
Aids, Security and Three Concepts of Risk
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12301588 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stefan Elbe (0000-0002-5567-5262, University of Sussex, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 2-3 |
| Pages | 177-198 |
| Publication date | 2008-03-20 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Security Dialogue (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0967-0106 • E-ISSN: 1460-3640 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0967010608088774 |
| OpenAlex | W2080046382 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 33 |
| References cited | 22 |
This article analyses the conjunctures of risk and security that have recently emerged in the securitization of HIV/AIDS. Although these partially corroborate Ulrich Beck's notion of risk society, important elements of the securitization of HIV/AIDS resist his understanding of risk as a 'danger of modernization'. The article therefore turns to François Ewald's alternative theorization of risk as a 'neologism of insurance', and shows that insurance is a risk-based security practice widely used to manage the welfare of populations. Such a biopolitical approach to risk is also valuable for analysing the securitization of HIV/AIDS, which, even though it is unfolding outside the domain of insurance, similarly draws upon multiple risk categories ('security risks', 'risk groups' and 'risk factors') in efforts to improve the collective health of populations. Analysed through a wider concept of risk as a 'biopolitical rationality', the conjuncture of risk and security in the securitization of HIV/AIDS thus emerges as a principal site where the institutions of sovereign power in international relations are being absorbed and integrated within a wider biopolitical economy of power
Biopower · Business · Political science · Politics · Risk society · Securitization · Social science · Sociology · Global Security and Public Health · Health and Conflict Studies · Human Rights and Development · Law · Finance
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In the line of duty
Secularism and the Politics of Risk
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Governing the Future
The intersectionality of health (in)security
Conceptual Notes on Energy Security
Security and the performative politics of resilience
Mapping the Security-Development Nexus
National risk registers
Not knowing, emancipatory catastrophism and metamorphosis
Discourses on im/migrants, ethnic minorities, and infectious disease
Practicing Uncertainty
Epidemics and the Military
Questioning health security
Natures of risk
Bio(in)security, scientific expertise, and the politics of post-disarmament in the biological weapons regime
National security risks? Uncertainty, austerity and other logics of risk in the UK government’s National Security Strategy
HIV epidemic control in South Africa
Securitization theory and its empirical application
Representations of terrorism and the making of counterterrorism policy
Common knowledge? Business intellectuals, BRIC and the production of knowledge across global finance and international relations
Dilemmas of securitization and health risk management in the People's Republic of China
Governing Health Risk by Buying Behaviour
The place of Africa in international relations
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Plagues and People
Law, Culture and Society
War as Risk Management
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Biopolitics of Specialized Risk
The Silence of Words
Terrorism, Risk and International Security
Reflexive Security
Living in a World Risk Society
World Risk Society and War against Terror
Hamas and the Destruction of Risk Society
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Underwriting Security
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| Unique citing works | 33 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,83 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2025 (18) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 33 |