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 1
... forces ranged against her existence which were responsible for her precarious living conditions in the first instance, and which simultaneously maintained her violent oppression and led to her fatal and final despair. Sonia Khatun died ...
... forces ranged against her existence which were responsible for her precarious living conditions in the first instance, and which simultaneously maintained her violent oppression and led to her fatal and final despair. Sonia Khatun died ...
Page 2
... force ever increasing exports, which increase competition and consequently lower income, in order to service misdirected external debts. Global society is human engineered and human directed. Its component parts and their precise roles ...
... force ever increasing exports, which increase competition and consequently lower income, in order to service misdirected external debts. Global society is human engineered and human directed. Its component parts and their precise roles ...
Page 12
... forces globally has pushed the security debate outside its traditional ambit and into the global problem of non-military violence against civilians. Where once violence was crudely defined to encompass primarily armed attack by states ...
... forces globally has pushed the security debate outside its traditional ambit and into the global problem of non-military violence against civilians. Where once violence was crudely defined to encompass primarily armed attack by states ...
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... force, in the same way that narrow definitions of security have been accused of being constricted and one ... forces, or physical assault' (1998: 145). For a growing body of writers, these conventions are too narrow. Different ...
... force, in the same way that narrow definitions of security have been accused of being constricted and one ... forces, or physical assault' (1998: 145). For a growing body of writers, these conventions are too narrow. Different ...
Page 19
... force that unintentionally prevented humans from realizing their actual potential. Limits placed on human personal development represented for Galtung another form of violence that affected far more people than conventional warfare ...
... force that unintentionally prevented humans from realizing their actual potential. Limits placed on human personal development represented for Galtung another form of violence that affected far more people than conventional warfare ...
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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