Description
In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, this edited volume revisits the framework of human security and development. It examines the protection-empowerment nexus as applied to various vulnerable groups and populations affected by the pandemic.
While the conventional human security literature has focused on top-down protection, this book offers new perspectives on human security by exploring bottom-up empowerment from both theoretical and practical perspectives. It also encourages readers to rethink the agency of vulnerable people in addressing the challenges posed by the pandemic. Through eight case studies from Southeast Asia and Japan, the contributors to this book demonstrate the importance of empowerment in achieving human security. They focus on the responses of vulnerable groups and communities to multiple threats to their lives, livelihoods, and dignity. The chapters discuss key human security concerns, such as poverty, the environment, food, forced migration, gender, health, aging, peace, and justice – all of which have been compounded and exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
An essential resource for students and scholars of human security in the aftermath of COVID-19 and its wider impacts.
The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license. Funded by JICA Ogata Sadako Research Institute for Peace and Development.
Table of Contents
1. Human Security and Empowerment: Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World
Mely Caballero-Anthony, Yoichi Mine and Sachiko Ishikawa
2. Urban Poverty during COVID-19 in Vietnam Case Study: Ma Lang-Dong Tien Neighborhood, Ho Chi Minh
Vu Le Thao Chi
3. COVID-19 Impact on the Most Vulnerable Communities In Indonesia
Jonatan A. Lassa
4. ‘Lacking in Care’: COVID-19 ‘Shadow Pandemics’ in the Philippines (2020–2021)
Maria Tanyag
5. Finding Empowerment Amidst Displacement and Immobility during Disasters
Lisette R. Robles
6. COVID-19 and Plastic Pollution in the Citarum River, Indonesia
Arisman
7. From Vertical to Horizontal Empowerment of Women (in) Peace and Security: Towards a Feminist Perspective of Human Security
Ma. Lourdes Veneracion
8. Aging Society in Thailand during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Surangrut Jumnianpol, Nithi Nuangjamnong, Montakarn Chimmamee and Thananon Buathong
9. COVID-19 AND BARMM: The Nested Process of Protection and Empowerment
Sachiko Ishikawa
10. In Quest of Empowerment
Sachiko Ishikawa, Mely Caballero-Anthony, Yoichi Mine, and Ako Muto
