Human security and the rise of global therapeutic governance

This article discusses the emergence of global therapeutic governance or the influence of social psychology on international development policy. Therapeutic governance links psychosocial well-being and security, and seeks to foster personalities able to cope with risk and insecurity. The article ana...

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Main Author: Pupavac, Vanessa
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Published: Routledge 2005
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/1398/
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description This article discusses the emergence of global therapeutic governance or the influence of social psychology on international development policy. Therapeutic governance links psychosocial well-being and security, and seeks to foster personalities able to cope with risk and insecurity. The article analyses how Western alarm at the destabilising impact of development eroded its support for an industrialisation model of development. The article then examines how the basic needs model is underpinned by social psychological theories and involves an abandonment of national development. Finally the article considers development as therapeutic governance and the implications of abandoning national development for the concept of human security. A final version of this article appeared as follows Vanessa Pupavac ‘Human Security and the Rise of Global Therapeutic Governance.’ Conflict, Security and Development, Vol 5 (2), 2005, pp. 161-181.
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spelling nottingham-13982020-05-04T20:30:57Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/1398/ Human security and the rise of global therapeutic governance Pupavac, Vanessa This article discusses the emergence of global therapeutic governance or the influence of social psychology on international development policy. Therapeutic governance links psychosocial well-being and security, and seeks to foster personalities able to cope with risk and insecurity. The article analyses how Western alarm at the destabilising impact of development eroded its support for an industrialisation model of development. The article then examines how the basic needs model is underpinned by social psychological theories and involves an abandonment of national development. Finally the article considers development as therapeutic governance and the implications of abandoning national development for the concept of human security. A final version of this article appeared as follows Vanessa Pupavac ‘Human Security and the Rise of Global Therapeutic Governance.’ Conflict, Security and Development, Vol 5 (2), 2005, pp. 161-181. Routledge 2005 Article PeerReviewed Pupavac, Vanessa (2005) Human security and the rise of global therapeutic governance. Conflict, Security and Development, 5 (2). pp. 161-181. ISSN 1467-8802 http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14678800500170076 doi:10.1080/14678800500170076 doi:10.1080/14678800500170076
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title Human security and the rise of global therapeutic governance
title_full Human security and the rise of global therapeutic governance
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title_short Human security and the rise of global therapeutic governance
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