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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... Social constructivist approaches, in turn, show how these processes of power and domination operate in international relations theory and practice. This body of understanding of the world, or ontology, claims international and national ...
... Social constructivist approaches, in turn, show how these processes of power and domination operate in international relations theory and practice. This body of understanding of the world, or ontology, claims international and national ...
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... social and political realities, the major threats to privileged values and groups, the agents who can change things, and so on' (ibid.: 13). In other words, our view of the world, be it 'realist' or 'social constructivist', will ...
... social and political realities, the major threats to privileged values and groups, the agents who can change things, and so on' (ibid.: 13). In other words, our view of the world, be it 'realist' or 'social constructivist', will ...
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... social machinery of oppression' (2002: 1). These structures are rarely easy to imagine. Nor do they readily take concrete form. Many of the structures surrounding our lives may appear benign when in fact they can be unintentionally (or ...
... social machinery of oppression' (2002: 1). These structures are rarely easy to imagine. Nor do they readily take concrete form. Many of the structures surrounding our lives may appear benign when in fact they can be unintentionally (or ...
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... social structures and institutions are phenomena 'that are required to shield people from threats'. The converse of this, however, is that it is often such human-engineered institutions which indirectly are the cause of much human ...
... social structures and institutions are phenomena 'that are required to shield people from threats'. The converse of this, however, is that it is often such human-engineered institutions which indirectly are the cause of much human ...
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... social conditions have undermined the necessity for our original genetic predisposition. It would appear that social conditions have evolved far more rapidly than our genes, which may explain in part the tension between the 'nature and ...
... social conditions have undermined the necessity for our original genetic predisposition. It would appear that social conditions have evolved far more rapidly than our genes, which may explain in part the tension between the 'nature and ...
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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