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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... and consequences and thus malleable and subject to transformation. That these women need not have died is obvious; but perhaps less apparently, their lives and deaths offer an opportunity, if we have the courage and One 2.
... and consequences and thus malleable and subject to transformation. That these women need not have died is obvious; but perhaps less apparently, their lives and deaths offer an opportunity, if we have the courage and One 2.
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... less evident in the 'New World Order'. In 2006, it was noted that 'Europeans spend more on perfume each year than the £7 billion needed to provide 2.6 billion people with access to clean water' (Massey 2006: 65). The skewed distribution ...
... less evident in the 'New World Order'. In 2006, it was noted that 'Europeans spend more on perfume each year than the £7 billion needed to provide 2.6 billion people with access to clean water' (Massey 2006: 65). The skewed distribution ...
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... less exposed to conditions that threatened its security. The problem had become how to define human security, a challenge discussed in greater detail in Chapter 2 of this work. The debate had become stalled between a very wide-ranging ...
... less exposed to conditions that threatened its security. The problem had become how to define human security, a challenge discussed in greater detail in Chapter 2 of this work. The debate had become stalled between a very wide-ranging ...
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... less than persistent social practices, made by collective human activity and transformed through collective human activity' (2005: 17). If this can be shown to bear on human insecurity, it has substantial critical ramifications for the ...
... less than persistent social practices, made by collective human activity and transformed through collective human activity' (2005: 17). If this can be shown to bear on human insecurity, it has substantial critical ramifications for the ...
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... less obvious explanations for what are clearly social phenomena, and a denial of adult responsibilities for their actions and the consequences of those actions on infants and other vulnerable people. Defending the narrow interpretation ...
... less obvious explanations for what are clearly social phenomena, and a denial of adult responsibilities for their actions and the consequences of those actions on infants and other vulnerable people. Defending the narrow interpretation ...
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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