Open AccessCOVID-19 PANDEMIC IN THE CONTEXT OF HUMAN SECURITY
Author(s) -
Ahmet Nazmi Üste,
Ahmet Odabaş
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
elm və innovativ texnologiyalar
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2616-4418
pISSN - 2521-1447
DOI - 10.30546/2616-4418.bitd.2021.102
Subject(s) - legitimacy , human rights , human security , context (archaeology) , political science , fundamental rights , law and economics , denial , pandemic , sociology , law , covid-19 , politics , psychology , geography , archaeology , medicine , disease , pathology , psychoanalysis , infectious disease (medical specialty)
The phenomenon of human security aims to combine security with human rights andfreedoms as a product of the changing security perception of the West after the Cold War. Theconcept of human security has transformed security from the perception of “only the absence ofthreat” to a perception in which elements such as “fears and needs” are also taken into account.However, the new circumstance affected by COVID-19 and the measures taken to combat thepandemic have enforced us to experience a period in which human security is eroded, anxietybecomes the dominant emotion, dificulties arise in meeting the existing needs as well as the newneeds that are dificult to meet. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the concept of human security hasbeen abandoned and the classical protective-restrictive security approach has been adopted dueto the wideness of the concept and its dificult nature to deine, which has criticised many times.In this process, sources such as the hierarchy of rights, the sociality of responsibility and the limitof freedom have constituted the legitimacy of the restrictive measures that had been taken. Theseextraordinary conditions, which are deemed appropriate for the limitation of rights and freedoms,are listed as a legitimate reason for the limitation of freedom in many legal texts. Another pointthat provides the legitimacy of struggle in extraordinary situations such as epidemic is the rarity ofsuch cases. However, the world is faced with a problem that will destroy this source of legitimacy.While the world is changing rapidly, viruses that cause epidemics are not at a ixed point. The rapidevolution of viruses and the spread of epidemics indicate the possibility of similar the outbreakslike the COVID-19 pandemic in the near future. For this reason, it will not be suficient for conceptssuch as human security to be damaged in such extraordinary situations and to be amendedagain in the subsequent normalization processes. This study aims to analyze the human securityphenomenon, the erosion that it has experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic, its underlyingsources of legitimacy and the possible problems to be encountered.