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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... place it in the visible and definable. Structural violence and structures of violence This work is partly concerned with further qualifying, developing and refining, in the context of human security studies, a particular form of ...
... place it in the visible and definable. Structural violence and structures of violence This work is partly concerned with further qualifying, developing and refining, in the context of human security studies, a particular form of ...
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... place between then and his 1969 publication. He noted that the structural forms of 'normal' existence that he had identified, and which had been analysed over the previous decade, were often: Settings within which individuals may do ...
... place between then and his 1969 publication. He noted that the structural forms of 'normal' existence that he had identified, and which had been analysed over the previous decade, were often: Settings within which individuals may do ...
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... place. Considered in this way, human insecurity can be defined as follows: avoidable civilian deaths, occurring globally, caused by social, political and economic institutions and structures, built and operated by humans and which could ...
... place. Considered in this way, human insecurity can be defined as follows: avoidable civilian deaths, occurring globally, caused by social, political and economic institutions and structures, built and operated by humans and which could ...
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... 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 developing world (see ...
... 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 developing world (see ...
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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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