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Ullica Segerstrale
Segerstrale, Ullica
Segerstrale, UllicaChair, Social Sciences Department, Illinois Institute of Technology; Fellow, World Academy of Art and Science |
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Chair, Social Sciences Department, Illinois Institute of Technology; Fellow, World Academy of Art and Science
Chair, Social Sciences Department, Illinois Institute of Technology; Fellow, World Academy of Art and Science
ARTICLES BY THIS AUTHOR
Educational Security, Existential Security, and Sociology
( Human Security ), ( Peace and Security )
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Abstract
This article addresses existential security, an aspect of security that has to do with the sustaining of the individual as a physical and mental being as well as the larger context of this individual. The ‘larger context’ can mean many things, including physical reality at different scales, socioeconomic realities, cultural conventions, the political state of the world, the development of technological power, etc., which are in turn perceived by a given individual...