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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 29
Page 2
... needs to be sustained. Thousands of miles away, another South Asian woman died but in quite different circumstances ... need not have died is obvious; but perhaps less apparently, their lives and deaths offer an opportunity, if we have ...
... needs to be sustained. Thousands of miles away, another South Asian woman died but in quite different circumstances ... need not have died is obvious; but perhaps less apparently, their lives and deaths offer an opportunity, if we have ...
Page 17
... needs both broadening and deepening (in line with Galtung's concept) are also subject to the same criticisms of it, while their critics neither recognize nor take seriously the extensive role of human agency in creating and perpetuating ...
... needs both broadening and deepening (in line with Galtung's concept) are also subject to the same criticisms of it, while their critics neither recognize nor take seriously the extensive role of human agency in creating and perpetuating ...
Page 24
... need; freedom from want is conceptually impossible to subjectively define or provide. Krause, in an attempt to properly 'delimit' the debate, suggests that 'freedom from want' should be dropped so we 'keep human security focussed on ...
... need; freedom from want is conceptually impossible to subjectively define or provide. Krause, in an attempt to properly 'delimit' the debate, suggests that 'freedom from want' should be dropped so we 'keep human security focussed on ...
Page 27
... needs were not being met by the state systems in which they lived (based in part on the 'responsibility to protect' concept). 'A biopolitics of life' includes 'educational measures aimed at enabling the poor to understand the ...
... needs were not being met by the state systems in which they lived (based in part on the 'responsibility to protect' concept). 'A biopolitics of life' includes 'educational measures aimed at enabling the poor to understand the ...
Page 32
... needs of girls' (2002: 1236). They estimate that worldwide there are 'between 60 and 100 million women and girls' who are 'missing' from normal population counts, and refer specifically to the case of India. There, 'after adjustment for ...
... needs of girls' (2002: 1236). They estimate that worldwide there are 'between 60 and 100 million women and girls' who are 'missing' from normal population counts, and refer specifically to the case of India. There, 'after adjustment for ...
Contents
1 | |
12 | |
31 | |
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 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
accepted actions agency andrarchy approach argues associated avoidable behaviour beliefs cause challenges child claims common concept concerned consequences considered construction countries created critical culture deaths debate defined demonstrate determined direct domestic domination dowry economic environment equality essential evidence example exist expectations extent external female forces Furthermore gender girls global honour human insecurity identified IFIs important inequality infanticide influence institutions involved issues killings legitimate less levels limited lives maintains male masculine means millions misogyny mortality murder nature needs neoliberalism normally noted notion occur organization outcomes places political poor poverty practice prevent priorities problem provision realist reasons refers reflects relations relationship relative remains responsible result role rules sexual social society structures suggest sustain threats tion traditional understanding values various violence vulnerable women