Feminist Security Studies and Care Ethics: Security in Latin America in the Wake of the Pandemic
Article Sidebar
Main Article Content
Abstract
Security in Latin America has traditionally been addressed from a state-centric and notable realistic perspective, underlining the threats to the state, from an external actor or from internal destabilization. This paper aims to highlight the suitability of incorporating Feminist Security Studies and Care Ethics in security analysis in order to redefine threats and what “feeling safe” implies, especially in the scenario generated by the COVID-19 pandemic. To this end, the gaps and silences in mainstream theories in the diagnoses on the worsening of the security challenges in the first semester of the pandemic are evidenced. Also, the nuances and perceptions of security included in the Care Ethics approach are highlighted. It is concluded that the conceptual broadening that the Care Ethics approach entails is relevant to analyze —academically and politically— the security threats in Latin America.
Downloads
Article Details
Urvio, Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios de Seguridad, operates under Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Work 3.0 unported (CC BY-ND 3.0).
The authors who publish in Urvio accept these terms:
You are free to share / copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format for any purpose, including commercial. Therefore, authors retain the copyright and cede to the journal the right of the first publication (CC by-ND 3.0), which allows third parties the redistribution, commercial or noncommercial, of what is published as long as the article circulates without changes.
The following conditions exist for the authors:
Recognition - you must recognize the authorship, provide a link to the license and indicate whether changes have been made. You can do this in any way reasonable, but not in a way that suggest that has the support of the licensor or receives it by the use he makes.
Without Derivative Work – If you remixed, transform or create a work from the original material, you cannot broadcast the modified material.
For more details, visit the page of Creative Commons (CC).
