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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... legitimate' power and the way in which past confrontations have led to the demonization of opposition. This provided an early introduction to language as power. Without realizing why at the time, certain statements and experiences ...
... legitimate' power and the way in which past confrontations have led to the demonization of opposition. This provided an early introduction to language as power. Without realizing why at the time, certain statements and experiences ...
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... legitimacy was challenged by the appellation 'communist'. Contemporaneously, and in similar fashion to Dom Helda Camara's experience, aid agencies are lauded when they bring relief to starving infants, but when the nostrums of the ...
... legitimacy was challenged by the appellation 'communist'. Contemporaneously, and in similar fashion to Dom Helda Camara's experience, aid agencies are lauded when they bring relief to starving infants, but when the nostrums of the ...
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... legitimate hierarchy and inequality' (1998: 145). She explains the stratification of women below men as a consequence of 'normalised' social rules and instituted hierarchies permitting male domination of females as a key cause of ...
... legitimate hierarchy and inequality' (1998: 145). She explains the stratification of women below men as a consequence of 'normalised' social rules and instituted hierarchies permitting male domination of females as a key cause of ...
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... legitimacy of the patronage model of international development without addressing the role of power patronage in determining human security problems in the first instance. Duffield and Wadell's contribution is perhaps the most ...
... legitimacy of the patronage model of international development without addressing the role of power patronage in determining human security problems in the first instance. Duffield and Wadell's contribution is perhaps the most ...
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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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