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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... concern. Belatedly reading the work of scholar Johan Galtung also expanded my intellectual inquiry. It became clear that realism, the field of studies concerned mainly with the state, weapons and a largely unchangeable international ...
... concern. Belatedly reading the work of scholar Johan Galtung also expanded my intellectual inquiry. It became clear that realism, the field of studies concerned mainly with the state, weapons and a largely unchangeable international ...
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Global Structures of Violence David Roberts. concerned by the same phenomena I had observed myself. As realism underwent a series of attacks from the Critical Security Studies approach, so too emerged from the literature a growing ...
Global Structures of Violence David Roberts. concerned by the same phenomena I had observed myself. As realism underwent a series of attacks from the Critical Security Studies approach, so too emerged from the literature a growing ...
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... concerned with cause and effect. The second rationale of this work, then, is the identification of mainly benign and ignorant or misunderstood human activities that lead to the human insecurity catastrophe that impacts upon millions of ...
... concerned with cause and effect. The second rationale of this work, then, is the identification of mainly benign and ignorant or misunderstood human activities that lead to the human insecurity catastrophe that impacts upon millions of ...
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... concerns that confront such an endeavour. A confrontation with established and dominant belief ordinarily meets ... concern well when she wrote that 'labels all too often become weapons in disciplinary mud-slinging matches, which can ...
... concerns that confront such an endeavour. A confrontation with established and dominant belief ordinarily meets ... concern well when she wrote that 'labels all too often become weapons in disciplinary mud-slinging matches, which can ...
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... concern of many traditionalists. In such views, this reinterpretation will render the field of security incoherent. Perhaps this is because they themselves are secure from such threats. Asked of a young child in Africa, Latin America or ...
... concern of many traditionalists. In such views, this reinterpretation will render the field of security incoherent. Perhaps this is because they themselves are secure from such threats. Asked of a young child in Africa, Latin America or ...
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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