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
... considered infanticide and starvation as security threats, no doubt the two groups would differ markedly. Furthermore, security is normally easier to understand when there are mechanistic 'vehicles' and agents to observe and count ...
... considered infanticide and starvation as security threats, no doubt the two groups would differ markedly. Furthermore, security is normally easier to understand when there are mechanistic 'vehicles' and agents to observe and count ...
Page 19
... considered by some at the time quite radical. Violence was to be understood as a force that unintentionally prevented humans from realizing their actual potential. Limits placed on human personal development represented for Galtung ...
... considered by some at the time quite radical. Violence was to be understood as a force that unintentionally prevented humans from realizing their actual potential. Limits placed on human personal development represented for Galtung ...
Page 25
... considered, but selectively limits those that at any time are prioritised with the “security” label'. He notes that the early UNDP philosophy was 'not to securitize everything, but to shift attention away About security and violence 25 ...
... considered, but selectively limits those that at any time are prioritised with the “security” label'. He notes that the early UNDP philosophy was 'not to securitize everything, but to shift attention away About security and violence 25 ...
Page 28
... Considered in this way, human insecurity can be defined as follows: avoidable civilian deaths, occurring globally, caused by social, political and economic institutions and structures, built and operated by humans and which could ...
... Considered in this way, human insecurity can be defined as follows: avoidable civilian deaths, occurring globally, caused by social, political and economic institutions and structures, built and operated by humans and which could ...
Page 31
... considered in the hope of reducing confusion over what is meant by the terms Third World, the Global South, the Majority World and the developing world (see Williams 1994: 2–5). I use the terms interchangeably throughout this work ...
... considered in the hope of reducing confusion over what is meant by the terms Third World, the Global South, the Majority World and the developing world (see Williams 1994: 2–5). I use the terms interchangeably throughout this work ...
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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