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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... means, electronic or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress cataloging in publication data are available. isbn 978 1 84277 ...
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... means and justifications. Caroline Thomas suggested that such vulnerability and insecurity result 'directly from existing power structures that determine who enjoys the entitlement to security and who does not' (2000: 4). In other words ...
... means and justifications. Caroline Thomas suggested that such vulnerability and insecurity result 'directly from existing power structures that determine who enjoys the entitlement to security and who does not' (2000: 4). In other words ...
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... mean no more but no 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 ...
... mean no more but no 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 ...
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... means to manage or end armed confrontation with nuclear missiles and large land-based military scenarios (Smith 2000). Rightly so, perhaps, the cold war threat was treated as the most serious to humankind, requiring, in the minds of ...
... means to manage or end armed confrontation with nuclear missiles and large land-based military scenarios (Smith 2000). Rightly so, perhaps, the cold war threat was treated as the most serious to humankind, requiring, in the minds of ...
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... 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 secure' (2005: 57). In this view, the solution lies in the state. For others ...
... 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 secure' (2005: 57). In this view, the solution lies in the state. For others ...
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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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