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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... occurring, or if they were already the subject matter of security research. For this reason, I chose to focus on deaths that could have been avoided and which were not caused by guns, bombs or machetes. Such deaths are both ...
... occurring, or if they were already the subject matter of security research. For this reason, I chose to focus on deaths that could have been avoided and which were not caused by guns, bombs or machetes. Such deaths are both ...
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... occur to recipients without it being perceived as such. For some, it is this perception and interpretation which link indirect violence to structures. Most traditional definitions of violence are not particularly helpful because About ...
... occur to recipients without it being perceived as such. For some, it is this perception and interpretation which link indirect violence to structures. Most traditional definitions of violence are not particularly helpful because About ...
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... occurs when an individual falls below the threshold of any key domain of human well-being' (2001: 585). Their approach concerns life expectancy undermined by poverty, where poverty is expressed in terms of particular aspects of ill ...
... occurs when an individual falls below the threshold of any key domain of human well-being' (2001: 585). Their approach concerns life expectancy undermined by poverty, where poverty is expressed in terms of particular aspects of ill ...
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... occurring globally, caused by social, political and economic institutions and structures, built and operated by humans and which could feasibly be changed. This interpretation of human insecurity means it can be transformed because it ...
... occurring globally, caused by social, political and economic institutions and structures, built and operated by humans and which could feasibly be changed. This interpretation of human insecurity means it can be transformed because it ...
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... occur in very poor places found mostly south of the equator, so terminology should be briefly considered in the hope of reducing confusion over what is meant by the terms Third World, the Global South, the Majority World and the ...
... occur in very poor places found mostly south of the equator, so terminology should be briefly considered in the hope of reducing confusion over what is meant by the terms Third World, the Global South, the Majority World and the ...
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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