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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... involved to justify calling something a conflict. The objectivist model, on the other hand, argues that conflict can exist without the awareness of the social actors since conflict, in this view, has to do with 'interests' and interests ...
... involved to justify calling something a conflict. The objectivist model, on the other hand, argues that conflict can exist without the awareness of the social actors since conflict, in this view, has to do with 'interests' and interests ...
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... involved in their construction and activity. The more that research 'denormalizes' the 'normal' structural precepts, the more the extent of structural violence will move from the 'invisible' to the 'visible' domain. This is especially ...
... involved in their construction and activity. The more that research 'denormalizes' the 'normal' structural precepts, the more the extent of structural violence will move from the 'invisible' to the 'visible' domain. This is especially ...
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... involved' (ibid.: 43). In this statement lies a conceptual pitfall. One problem lies in the proposed use and maintenance of key elements of the international framework that are responsible for undermining human insecurity in the first ...
... involved' (ibid.: 43). In this statement lies a conceptual pitfall. One problem lies in the proposed use and maintenance of key elements of the international framework that are responsible for undermining human insecurity in the first ...
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... involved in the social, political and economic subjugation of women's independence, capacities and desires, it forces us to confront the question of why so many probably otherwise good people would undertake such a grim and macabre ...
... involved in the social, political and economic subjugation of women's independence, capacities and desires, it forces us to confront the question of why so many probably otherwise good people would undertake such a grim and macabre ...
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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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