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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... relationship between development and security, especially when security was defined in terms of the environment, natural resources and poverty. Few connections were made initially between human agency and human security outcomes, but an ...
... relationship between development and security, especially when security was defined in terms of the environment, natural resources and poverty. Few connections were made initially between human agency and human security outcomes, but an ...
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... the world. In a very real sense, a core aspect of this book is power relationships and the capacity of dominant structures and institutions to ensure aims and outcomes that suit the interests of what Pasha and Introduction 9.
... the world. In a very real sense, a core aspect of this book is power relationships and the capacity of dominant structures and institutions to ensure aims and outcomes that suit the interests of what Pasha and Introduction 9.
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... structures and ecological conditions'. While human security itself is related directly to changeable social and political structures, there is a larger relationship, wherein 'human security is critical to international Two 24.
... structures and ecological conditions'. While human security itself is related directly to changeable social and political structures, there is a larger relationship, wherein 'human security is critical to international Two 24.
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... relationship between human agency and structure in solutions to human security challenges is a pressing next step in the human security discourse' (2004: 359). But Newman's 'pressing next step' seems to have been halted by ...
... relationship between human agency and structure in solutions to human security challenges is a pressing next step in the human security discourse' (2004: 359). But Newman's 'pressing next step' seems to have been halted by ...
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... relationships, North to South, and the priorities determined by international institutions dominated by particular ideologies of wealth provision and priorities. Biopolitical human security attends to the sustainable development needs ...
... relationships, North to South, and the priorities determined by international institutions dominated by particular ideologies of wealth provision and priorities. Biopolitical human security attends to the sustainable development needs ...
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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