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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Page 1
... live in such life-threatening environments if other accessible options are available. It became ever clearer that people who are routinely vulnerable are so because other people with greater power control safer land, and governments and ...
... live in such life-threatening environments if other accessible options are available. It became ever clearer that people who are routinely vulnerable are so because other people with greater power control safer land, and governments and ...
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... lives were wrenched from them, through Mrs Sidhu and the Sikh family she was part of, through the grieving grandmother, to the male-dominated capitalist economy that loses a worker. None of this violence needs to be sustained. Thousands ...
... lives were wrenched from them, through Mrs Sidhu and the Sikh family she was part of, through the grieving grandmother, to the male-dominated capitalist economy that loses a worker. None of this violence needs to be sustained. Thousands ...
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... lives and deaths of millions upon millions of people around the world, without a shot being fired or a machete being drawn. This work has a yet broader purpose. Demonstrating the role of human built and operated global financial ...
... lives and deaths of millions upon millions of people around the world, without a shot being fired or a machete being drawn. This work has a yet broader purpose. Demonstrating the role of human built and operated global financial ...
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... lives which violates our humanity and demeans the powerful who, by omission or act, so easily sanction such avoidable mortality. It is a contest of who determines security for whom; elites' perceptions of security are almost always tied ...
... lives which violates our humanity and demeans the powerful who, by omission or act, so easily sanction such avoidable mortality. It is a contest of who determines security for whom; elites' perceptions of security are almost always tied ...
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... lives from being lived when they could be. This book seeks to demonstrate and explain the global structures and institutions of violence that create and perpetuate this crisis and, in rendering them visible, identify elemental ...
... lives from being lived when they could be. This book seeks to demonstrate and explain the global structures and institutions of violence that create and perpetuate this crisis and, in rendering them visible, identify elemental ...
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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