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 5
... challenge discussed in greater detail in Chapter 2 of this work. The debate had become stalled between a very wide-ranging and indefinable conceptualization, at one end, and one that failed to capture the gravity of the human condition ...
... challenge discussed in greater detail in Chapter 2 of this work. The debate had become stalled between a very wide-ranging and indefinable conceptualization, at one end, and one that failed to capture the gravity of the human condition ...
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... challenge it represents to established orthodoxies of the realisms in international relations shows that 'people are not just bearers of structures, they create them ... Historical structures mean no more but no less than persistent ...
... challenge it represents to established orthodoxies of the realisms in international relations shows that 'people are not just bearers of structures, they create them ... Historical structures mean no more but no less than persistent ...
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... challenge is great. Like many people, I have long been interested in how ordinary people stand up to the state and its monopoly of 'legitimate' power and the way in which past confrontations have led to the demonization of opposition ...
... challenge is great. Like many people, I have long been interested in how ordinary people stand up to the state and its monopoly of 'legitimate' power and the way in which past confrontations have led to the demonization of opposition ...
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... challenges to their perspectives are likely to be the subject of denial, rebuttal, propaganda or, more normally, all three. 'Securitizing' the millions of children, boys and girls, who die from avoidable illnesses and the millions of ...
... challenges to their perspectives are likely to be the subject of denial, rebuttal, propaganda or, more normally, all three. 'Securitizing' the millions of children, boys and girls, who die from avoidable illnesses and the millions of ...
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... challenge of mainstreaming human security as a global human concern at least on a par with the more traditional notions of security that preoccupy government thinking is also a power struggle. It is a struggle for critical feminists not ...
... challenge of mainstreaming human security as a global human concern at least on a par with the more traditional notions of security that preoccupy government thinking is also a power struggle. It is a struggle for critical feminists not ...
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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