Jessica Kirk

More Than a Health Crisis

Securitization and the US Response to the 2013-2016 Ebola Outbreak

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Produktbeschreibung

"Examines the US securitization of the 2013-2016 Ebola outbreak, exploring how Ebola was understood as a security threat and how this impacted on the US response to the health crisis"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: MIT Press Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 153mm x 233mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 298g
• ISBN-13: 9780262545693
• ISBN-10: 0262545691
• Artikelnr.: 68271940

Autorenporträt

Jessica Kirk is Research Fellow in the Centre for Governance and Public Policy at Griffith University in Brisbane. She is also Chief Investigator on an ARC Discovery Project on COVID-19 and the politics of expertise, and her work has appeared in such journals as International Studies Quarterly and Global Studies Quarterly.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
List of Abbreviations xiii
1 Introduction 1
2 Setting Up Securitization 31
3 The Basic Securitizing Discourses 61
4 Securitizing Ebola 99
5 Securitizing beyond Ebola 135
6 Conclusion: Global Health beyond Ebola 163
Notes 179
References 181
Index 219