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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... girl killed herself because she could not face the 'shame' of not being able to afford the one-penny cost of her school lunch (see also Reuters India, 25 September 2005; Mazzadri, 2 May 2007). She lived with her mother 'under a ...
... girl killed herself because she could not face the 'shame' of not being able to afford the one-penny cost of her school lunch (see also Reuters India, 25 September 2005; Mazzadri, 2 May 2007). She lived with her mother 'under a ...
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... girl, and her Sikh husband left her because he and his society demanded a boy child. Navjeet Sidhu felt she had failed her family, herself and the wider expectations of a brutally patriarchal order. She died because of value systems ...
... girl, and her Sikh husband left her because he and his society demanded a boy child. Navjeet Sidhu felt she had failed her family, herself and the wider expectations of a brutally patriarchal order. She died because of value systems ...
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... girls, who die from avoidable illnesses and the millions of female infanticide victims has already invoked the ire and concern of many traditionalists. In such views, this reinterpretation will render the field of security incoherent ...
... girls, who die from avoidable illnesses and the millions of female infanticide victims has already invoked the ire and concern of many traditionalists. In such views, this reinterpretation will render the field of security incoherent ...
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... girls are “missing”, with the greatest excess mortality rate in girls younger than 4 years' (ibid.: 1236; Sen 2003). Two UN reports, in 2000 and 2005, noted similar findings (UNFPA 2000: 25; UNFPA 2005: 2). It is claimed that up to ...
... girls are “missing”, with the greatest excess mortality rate in girls younger than 4 years' (ibid.: 1236; Sen 2003). Two UN reports, in 2000 and 2005, noted similar findings (UNFPA 2000: 25; UNFPA 2005: 2). It is claimed that up to ...
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... girls (The Times, 18 December 2006: 3). Furthermore, the practice of preferring a male child to a female child extends after birth and throughout early years. In other words, even when a girl is not killed at birth because of the ...
... girls (The Times, 18 December 2006: 3). Furthermore, the practice of preferring a male child to a female child extends after birth and throughout early years. In other words, even when a girl is not killed at birth because of the ...
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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