| Summary: | The thesis examines Canadian and Japanese human security assemblages. It aims to
delve below stereotypical imageries ¿representing¿ these human security
articulations. The concept of ¿human security¿ is not a starting point, but a result of
elements, processes, structures and mechanisms which need to be investigated in
order to reveal insights about a given articulation of human security. Each human
security assemblage is composed of messy discourses and practices which are
loosely related and sometimes even disconnected. Academics have frequently
avoided studying the messiness of political discourses and practices and their mutual
dependencies or their lack thereof. By contrast, this thesis ascertains what has lain
beneath Canadian and Japanese spatio-temporal articulation of human security and
establishes the kinds of structural terrain which have enabled, shaped, or blocked the
unfolding of certain versions of human security. The pivotal contention of the thesis
is that Canadian and Japanese articulations of human security have been different
because they have grown from completely different domestic economies of power
governing the relationship between the state apparatus and the non-profit and
voluntary sector. While the Canadian human security assemblage has been shaped by
transformations in the country¿s advanced liberal model of government, the Japanese
has been shaped by the continuities of Japan¿s bureaucratic authoritarianism. A novel
approach is employed for the related process-tracing: a general series linking
structural conditions with actual articulations of the human security projects, and
their further development, including analysis of their unintended consequences. === Grant Agency of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Japan Foundation/Government of Japan, International Council for Canadian Studies/Government of Canada, Jan Hus Foundation.
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