Global Governance and Biopolitics: Regulating Human Security

London, Zed Books, 2010, ISBN 9781848132177, 195pp
 

This book delivers a critique of the neoliberal global order. It presents global governance not as impartial institutionalism, but as the calculated mismanagement of life, directing biopolitical, neoliberal ideology through global networks, undermining the human security of millions. The book responds to recent critiques of the human security concept as incoherent by identifying and prioritising transnational human populations facing life-ending contingencies en masse. Furthermore, it proposes a realignment of World Bank practices towards mobilising indigenous provision of water and sanitation in areas with the highest rates of avoidable child mortality.