MAPPING SECURITY FOR BANGLADESH: AN EMANCIPATORY APPROACH

Md Shariful Islam

Abstract


The study investigates the long-standing security practices of Bangladesh which overlooks the major referent object of security, the individuals. The study argues that based on the logic of protecting sovereignty, mapping security for Bangladesh goes in the direction of prioritizing state security while overlooking individuals. But major security threats of the country are from non-military aspects which range from environmental to food to health insecurity. The study claims that in the case of Bangladesh, individuals should be identified as the primary referent object of security. In this context, this study applies the ‘Security as Emancipation’ (SAE) approach for mapping security for Bangladesh. The area of health security is used as an illustration to further discuss the implications of ‘politicization of security’ in Bangladesh. Against the above backdrop, this research investigates one central question: How can the ‘Security as Emancipation’ approach be used to map security for Bangladesh?


Keywords


Bangladesh, Critical security studies, Emancipation, Health security, Politicization of security.

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