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 2
... concept of female infanticide. Six months later, her mother returned to the site at which her daughter died and killed herself. Everyone lost, from the children whose lives were wrenched from them, through Mrs Sidhu and the Sikh family ...
... concept of female infanticide. Six months later, her mother returned to the site at which her daughter died and killed herself. Everyone lost, from the children whose lives were wrenched from them, through Mrs Sidhu and the Sikh family ...
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... concept couldn't be defined, then it couldn't be identified and it couldn't be counted or analysed. There was no case to answer. Defining the concept in terms of human insecurity allowed me to propose that there were conditions of ...
... concept couldn't be defined, then it couldn't be identified and it couldn't be counted or analysed. There was no case to answer. Defining the concept in terms of human insecurity allowed me to propose that there were conditions of ...
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... concepts and methodologies. Demonstrating this discrepancy is the first element of this work's approach to human insecurity. It is the evidential foundation stone on which the second rationale rests. That second stage is to offer a more ...
... concepts and methodologies. Demonstrating this discrepancy is the first element of this work's approach to human insecurity. It is the evidential foundation stone on which the second rationale rests. That second stage is to offer a more ...
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... concept workable, meaningful and usable. • Demonstrates the scale and extent to which human insecurity exists, and how in some cases this can lead to direct violence. • Identifies international institutional determinism in avoidable ...
... concept workable, meaningful and usable. • Demonstrates the scale and extent to which human insecurity exists, and how in some cases this can lead to direct violence. • Identifies international institutional determinism in avoidable ...
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... concept of security needed to be opened in two directions. First, the notion of security should no longer be limited to the military domain. Rather, it should have a more general meaning that could be applied not just to the military ...
... concept of security needed to be opened in two directions. First, the notion of security should no longer be limited to the military domain. Rather, it should have a more general meaning that could be applied not just to the military ...
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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