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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... traditional approaches. Thus, the new research 'referent', or 'object', was to be the human being itself, and how to render that vulnerable object less exposed to conditions that threatened its security. The problem had become how to ...
... traditional approaches. Thus, the new research 'referent', or 'object', was to be the human being itself, and how to render that vulnerable object less exposed to conditions that threatened its security. The problem had become how to ...
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... traditional notions of security that preoccupy government thinking is also a power struggle. It is a struggle for critical feminists not to have rigorous scholarship and analysis delegitimized by sexist states, institutions and ...
... traditional notions of security that preoccupy government thinking is also a power struggle. It is a struggle for critical feminists not to have rigorous scholarship and analysis delegitimized by sexist states, institutions and ...
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... traditional ambit and into the global problem of non-military violence against civilians. Where once violence was crudely defined to encompass primarily armed attack by states, it now incorporates many other forms of assault on many ...
... traditional ambit and into the global problem of non-military violence against civilians. Where once violence was crudely defined to encompass primarily armed attack by states, it now incorporates many other forms of assault on many ...
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... traditional schools remained concerned with states and weapons, and while variations on these schools addressed ecological, environment and economic security matters as discrete issues, another movement emerged that marks an important ...
... traditional schools remained concerned with states and weapons, and while variations on these schools addressed ecological, environment and economic security matters as discrete issues, another movement emerged that marks an important ...
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... traditional orthodoxy in terms of what security means. He fears 'the consequences of perpetuating old orthodoxies in a fast-moving political landscape'. For Booth, 'the price for old thinking about world security is paid, daily, in the ...
... traditional orthodoxy in terms of what security means. He fears 'the consequences of perpetuating old orthodoxies in a fast-moving political landscape'. For Booth, 'the price for old thinking about world security is paid, daily, in the ...
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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