Human Insecurity: Global Structures of ViolenceBloomsbury Publishing, 2008 M05 15 - 219 pages Human Insecurity is concerned with our refusal to confront the millions of avoidable deaths of women and children each year. Those missing millions are rarely the subject of conventional security studies, yet such avoidable deaths are a vital part of the notion of 'security' more broadly understood. The book argues that such deaths are caused by the man-made structures of neoliberalism and 'andrarchy' and argues that the debate on human security can be reinvigorated by looking at the unarmed, civilian role in causing the deaths of millions of innocent people; from child deaths from preventable disease to honour killings. David Roberts claims that by facing up to this relationship between social structures and massive avoidable human suffering we can create another system less prone to global violence. This book is a powerful intervention in the debate on human security and an urgent call to face up to our responsibilities to the millions killed needlessly each year. |
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Page 9
... associated with mass avoidable deaths of infants from malnutrition and malaria, critical challenges to their perspectives are likely to be the subject of denial, rebuttal, propaganda or, more normally, all three. 'Securitizing' the ...
... associated with mass avoidable deaths of infants from malnutrition and malaria, critical challenges to their perspectives are likely to be the subject of denial, rebuttal, propaganda or, more normally, all three. 'Securitizing' the ...
Page 15
... associated ambits and agendas. This would permit more pragmatic and 'realistic' policy formulation. Others, however, favour a broader, more imaginative and maximalist approach (Booth 2005). This latter approach inspires great comment ...
... associated ambits and agendas. This would permit more pragmatic and 'realistic' policy formulation. Others, however, favour a broader, more imaginative and maximalist approach (Booth 2005). This latter approach inspires great comment ...
Page 23
... associated with civil war, genocide and the displacement of populations' (Mack 2005: viii). But as the report writers concede, their conceptualization of human security is narrow and focuses mainly on political violence. Furthermore ...
... associated with civil war, genocide and the displacement of populations' (Mack 2005: viii). But as the report writers concede, their conceptualization of human security is narrow and focuses mainly on political violence. Furthermore ...
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... associated with geographical regions within which there are so many differences as to render each term alone largely ineffectual. 'The Third World' title is the subject of different perspectives. While there is general agreement that it ...
... associated with geographical regions within which there are so many differences as to render each term alone largely ineffectual. 'The Third World' title is the subject of different perspectives. While there is general agreement that it ...
Page 32
... associated with being female. It happens currently on the widest scale in India and China, but has also been practised in Ireland, the UK and other parts of Europe historically. It is sometimes euphemistically referred to as 'son ...
... associated with being female. It happens currently on the widest scale in India and China, but has also been practised in Ireland, the UK and other parts of Europe historically. It is sometimes euphemistically referred to as 'son ...
Contents
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FOUR Institutions the U5MR infanticide and maternal mortality | 69 |
FIVE Institutions and intimate murder | 88 |
SIX Human and realist security | 105 |
SEVEN International institutions | 117 |
EIGHT Andrarchy and neoliberalism | 136 |
NINE Global structures | 159 |
TEN Conclusion | 179 |
Bibliography | 186 |
Index | 202 |
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