Managing the Dead in Disaster Response: A Matter for Health Security in the Asia-Pacific Region?

摘要: ABSTRACTThis paper explores the securitisation-desecuritisation nexus in managing threats to health, drawing on a case study examining management of dead disaster response Asia-Pacific region. While securitising health may galvanise political action address capacity, infrastructure and resource constraints, it is vital that shift towards desecuritisation takes place once immediate threat under control. This because likely create an environment which established humanitarian, public forensic practices for addressing such can proceed context normal politics. It will also offer greater flexibility pursuing post-threat resilience strategies enhance individual collective wellbeing. In turn, this broader human security concerns. Conceptualised way, should be seen not merely as strategy resisting or adapting securitised situation but k...