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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... value systems that have been learned and which find ultimate expression in the concept of female infanticide. Six months later, her mother returned to the site at which her daughter died and killed herself. Everyone lost, from the ...
... value systems that have been learned and which find ultimate expression in the concept of female infanticide. Six months later, her mother returned to the site at which her daughter died and killed herself. Everyone lost, from the ...
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... value of the total production of fifty countries, and 447 multimillionaires own a greater fortune than the annual income of half of humanity' (2005: 391). This situation, he continues, 'shows no sign of becoming any less ugly' (ibid ...
... value of the total production of fifty countries, and 447 multimillionaires own a greater fortune than the annual income of half of humanity' (2005: 391). This situation, he continues, 'shows no sign of becoming any less ugly' (ibid ...
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... values, and comments on the implications of this for the discipline of international relations. Before we begin, however, I would like to address some concerns that confront such an endeavour. A confrontation with established and ...
... values, and comments on the implications of this for the discipline of international relations. Before we begin, however, I would like to address some concerns that confront such an endeavour. A confrontation with established and ...
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... 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 determine what we view as being 'secure' or 'insecure'. Thakur ...
... 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 determine what we view as being 'secure' or 'insecure'. Thakur ...
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... values or goals by the actors involved to justify calling something a conflict. The objectivist model, on the other hand, argues that conflict can exist without the awareness of the social actors since conflict, in this view, has to do ...
... values or goals by the actors involved to justify calling something a conflict. The objectivist model, on the other hand, argues that conflict can exist without the awareness of the social actors since conflict, in this view, has to do ...
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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