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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Global Structures of Violence David Roberts. Abbreviations. DCV FGM G8 GATT HDR HSR ICFTU IFI IMF IR MTP NGO direct ... structural adjustment programmes under five infant mortality rate United Nations United Nations Development Programme ...
Global Structures of Violence David Roberts. Abbreviations. DCV FGM G8 GATT HDR HSR ICFTU IFI IMF IR MTP NGO direct ... structural adjustment programmes under five infant mortality rate United Nations United Nations Development Programme ...
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... structures that determine who enjoys the entitlement to security and who does not' (2000: 4). In other words, it ... structural forces ranged against her existence which were responsible for her precarious living conditions in the first ...
... structures that determine who enjoys the entitlement to security and who does not' (2000: 4). In other words, it ... structural forces ranged against her existence which were responsible for her precarious living conditions in the first ...
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Global Structures of Violence David Roberts. intentional and, crucially, avoidable for the most part. By the former, I refer to the problem of good intentions having lethal unintended consequences which are then ignored or denied. It is ...
Global Structures of Violence David Roberts. intentional and, crucially, avoidable for the most part. By the former, I refer to the problem of good intentions having lethal unintended consequences which are then ignored or denied. It is ...
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... structural chokes that prevent those millions of lives from being lived when they could be. This book seeks to demonstrate and explain the global structures and institutions of violence that create and perpetuate this crisis and, in ...
... structural chokes that prevent those millions of lives from being lived when they could be. This book seeks to demonstrate and explain the global structures and institutions of violence that create and perpetuate this crisis and, in ...
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... structures with a capacity for undermining human security. It seems that, while not obviously or immediately visible in much of the literature, Galtung's notions of human-built structures that cause violence unintentionally (as well as ...
... structures with a capacity for undermining human security. It seems that, while not obviously or immediately visible in much of the literature, Galtung's notions of human-built structures that cause violence unintentionally (as well as ...
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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