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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... normally attributed to Dom Helda Camara, a South American Catholic bishop, but could have come from anyone with enough critical consciousness to recognize when incontestable evidence is being denied by elite power interests that ...
... normally attributed to Dom Helda Camara, a South American Catholic bishop, but could have come from anyone with enough critical consciousness to recognize when incontestable evidence is being denied by elite power interests that ...
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... normally, all three. 'Securitizing' the millions of children, boys and girls, who die from avoidable illnesses and the millions of female infanticide victims has already invoked the ire and concern of many traditionalists. In such views ...
... normally, all three. 'Securitizing' the millions of children, boys and girls, who die from avoidable illnesses and the millions of female infanticide victims has already invoked the ire and concern of many traditionalists. In such views ...
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... normally results in visible victims and survivors. But there is also a debate regarding whether recipients of violence are able to perceive what is happening to them as 'violent', or whether violence can occur to recipients without it ...
... normally results in visible victims and survivors. But there is also a debate regarding whether recipients of violence are able to perceive what is happening to them as 'violent', or whether violence can occur to recipients without it ...
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... normally ignored, ridiculed or punished in a variety of ways for challenging and transgressing 'reality', 'the way it is' and 'the natural order'. In a sense, however, the variation in estimates is not important. Even if the figures ...
... normally ignored, ridiculed or punished in a variety of ways for challenging and transgressing 'reality', 'the way it is' and 'the natural order'. In a sense, however, the variation in estimates is not important. Even if the figures ...
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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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