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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... poor and vulnerable people live by denying access to better land through a range of means and justifications. Caroline Thomas suggested that such vulnerability and insecurity result 'directly from existing power structures that ...
... poor and vulnerable people live by denying access to better land through a range of means and justifications. Caroline Thomas suggested that such vulnerability and insecurity result 'directly from existing power structures that ...
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... poor: he was reported as spending £350,000 ($700,000) on Hennessey cognac while millions of his country folk starved in famines (Guardian, 30 November 2006: 16). During the cold war, such excesses in 'Third World dictator chic' were ...
... poor: he was reported as spending £350,000 ($700,000) on Hennessey cognac while millions of his country folk starved in famines (Guardian, 30 November 2006: 16). During the cold war, such excesses in 'Third World dictator chic' were ...
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... poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist'. The quote is normally attributed to Dom Helda Camara, a South American Catholic bishop, but could have come from anyone with enough critical ...
... poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist'. The quote is normally attributed to Dom Helda Camara, a South American Catholic bishop, but could have come from anyone with enough critical ...
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... poor government policies had been prevented from achieving their Galtungian potential through acts of a human-structural nature. It also suggested that people impoverished as a result of their governments selling their land, for example ...
... poor government policies had been prevented from achieving their Galtungian potential through acts of a human-structural nature. It also suggested that people impoverished as a result of their governments selling their land, for example ...
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... poor to understand the contingencies of their existence and to manage better, and compensate for, the risks involved' (ibid.: 43). In this statement lies a conceptual pitfall. One problem lies in the proposed use and maintenance of key ...
... poor to understand the contingencies of their existence and to manage better, and compensate for, the risks involved' (ibid.: 43). In this statement lies a conceptual pitfall. One problem lies in the proposed use and maintenance of key ...
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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