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Aids, Security, Biopolitics

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ID4444566
AuthorsStefan Elbe (0000-0002-5567-5262, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK, corresponding author)
Year2005
Volume19
Issue4
Pages403-419
Publication date2005-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Relations (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0047-1178 • E-ISSN: 1741-2862
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0047117805058532
OpenAlexW2131030738
LanguageEN
Citations received49

This article critically engages with recent efforts to frame the global AIDS pandemic as an international security issue. The securitization of HIV/AIDS is significant, the article argues, not just because it is a novel way of conceptualizing the global AIDS pandemic, but also because it marks an important contemporary site for the global dissemination of a biopolitical economy of power revolving around the government of 'life'. This biopolitical dimension to the securitization of AIDS brings into play a set of potentially racist and normalizing social practices, which, the article argues, international political actors should seek to avoid in their attempts to find appropriate and effective responses to the global AIDS pandemic. Ways of minimizing these dangers are explored in the conclusion of the article

Biopower · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) · Dimension (graph theory) · Economics · Government (linguistics) · International relations · Pandemic · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Securitization · Sociology · Bacillus and Francisella bacterial research · Global Security and Public Health · Health and Conflict Studies · Law · Medicine

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Citations per year2,45
Citation span2006 - 2026 (21)
Citation velocitycurrent
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 45
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