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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... influential literature. Defining human insecurity in terms of avoidable civilian deaths enables a quantitative assessment of the extent of the issue, but it would be meaningless if the deaths were naturally occurring, or if they were ...
... influential literature. Defining human insecurity in terms of avoidable civilian deaths enables a quantitative assessment of the extent of the issue, but it would be meaningless if the deaths were naturally occurring, or if they were ...
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... influence the life destinies of millions of people who too often suffer deadly consequences without reasonable retribution. The tens of thousands of people who continue to suffer in Bhopal, India, from the devastating accident at a ...
... influence the life destinies of millions of people who too often suffer deadly consequences without reasonable retribution. The tens of thousands of people who continue to suffer in Bhopal, India, from the devastating accident at a ...
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... influences in the human security process. He posits that 'if government is a means to ... protection and improvement of the well-being of its citizens – then the central issue concerns how this should be done, how people can be made ...
... influences in the human security process. He posits that 'if government is a means to ... protection and improvement of the well-being of its citizens – then the central issue concerns how this should be done, how people can be made ...
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... influence traditional security concerns, rendered visible connections that had been much less apparent for many of those studying security in the 1990s and after. Booth elaborates: Human society in global perspective is shaped by ideas ...
... influence traditional security concerns, rendered visible connections that had been much less apparent for many of those studying security in the 1990s and after. Booth elaborates: Human society in global perspective is shaped by ideas ...
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... influenced so that their actual somatic and mental realizations are below their potential realizations'. He made reference to situations 'where there is an actor that commits ... violence as personal or direct, and to violence where ...
... influenced so that their actual somatic and mental realizations are below their potential realizations'. He made reference to situations 'where there is an actor that commits ... violence as personal or direct, and to violence where ...
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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