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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... example of this came from a postcard sold in a Student Union office. It read: 'when I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist'. The quote is normally attributed to Dom ...
... example of this came from a postcard sold in a Student Union office. It read: 'when I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist'. The quote is normally attributed to Dom ...
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... example, Thomas asserts that 'people, rather than states, are the subject of evidence-based analysis' (2004: 353). This is significant because it refocuses the concept of security to concern people's everyday existences and, while this ...
... example, Thomas asserts that 'people, rather than states, are the subject of evidence-based analysis' (2004: 353). This is significant because it refocuses the concept of security to concern people's everyday existences and, while this ...
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... example, when urging a 'broad research programme' on human security, Bajpai suggests that we 'focus on threats that can be traced back to identifiable human agents ... not to structural ... causes' (2004: 360). The argument seems to ...
... example, when urging a 'broad research programme' on human security, Bajpai suggests that we 'focus on threats that can be traced back to identifiable human agents ... not to structural ... causes' (2004: 360). The argument seems to ...
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... example, people who died as a result of lack of access to drinking water caused by poor government policies had been prevented from achieving their Galtungian potential through acts of a human-structural nature. It also suggested that ...
... example, people who died as a result of lack of access to drinking water caused by poor government policies had been prevented from achieving their Galtungian potential through acts of a human-structural nature. It also suggested that ...
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... in the Western academic press of this concept, but he is far from the only one concerned with structures in shaping violence. For example, Prontzos declares that structural violence could be thought of as 'deleterious conditions that Two ...
... in the Western academic press of this concept, but he is far from the only one concerned with structures in shaping violence. For example, Prontzos declares that structural violence could be thought of as 'deleterious conditions that Two ...
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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