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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Page 1
... result 'directly from existing power structures that determine who enjoys the entitlement to security and who does not' (2000: 4). In other words, it became harder and harder to understand why such views as Thomas's and my own were not ...
... result 'directly from existing power structures that determine who enjoys the entitlement to security and who does not' (2000: 4). In other words, it became harder and harder to understand why such views as Thomas's and my own were not ...
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... result of a terrible depression (The Times, 27 September 2006). The depression was brought on because her first baby was a girl, and her Sikh husband left her because he and his society demanded a boy child. Navjeet Sidhu felt she had ...
... result of a terrible depression (The Times, 27 September 2006). The depression was brought on because her first baby was a girl, and her Sikh husband left her because he and his society demanded a boy child. Navjeet Sidhu felt she had ...
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... result, this book, is a contribution born from intellectual inquiry but originating from private concern. Belatedly reading the work of scholar Johan Galtung also expanded my intellectual inquiry. It became clear that realism, the field ...
... result, this book, is a contribution born from intellectual inquiry but originating from private concern. Belatedly reading the work of scholar Johan Galtung also expanded my intellectual inquiry. It became clear that realism, the field ...
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... result of the security phenomena addressed by the majority of security schools, then there was a case to answer. The figures suggest there is a strong case indeed. These statistics, gathered from sources like the World Health ...
... result of the security phenomena addressed by the majority of security schools, then there was a case to answer. The figures suggest there is a strong case indeed. These statistics, gathered from sources like the World Health ...
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... result of the activities of an institution or a structure, either of which might be construed as a perpetrator. Direct violence normally results in visible victims and survivors. But there is also a debate regarding whether recipients ...
... result of the activities of an institution or a structure, either of which might be construed as a perpetrator. Direct violence normally results in visible victims and survivors. But there is also a debate regarding whether recipients ...
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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